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District 6 reports high person-crime clearance rates; property-crime clearances lag, frauds drive numbers
Summary
At a CompStat briefing with City of DeBary leaders, Volusia County Sheriff's Office District 6 described strong clearance rates for person crimes, lower clearance for property crimes driven largely by fraud, and cited multiple cleared arrests and ongoing CID work.
District Captain Israel told City of DeBary officials at a CompStat meeting that Volusia County Sheriff's Office District 6's year-to-date clearance rate for person crimes is high and well above national averages.
“For us, sitting at 96% clearance rate is is phenomenal,” Captain Israel said, and he also reported a year-to-date clearance rate figure of 88% earlier in the briefing. He contrasted that with the national average for person-crime clearance, which he gave as about 41 percent.
The difference between person and property crimes was a focus. Captain Israel said property-crime clearance was lower: he cited a year-to-date property-crime clearance in the high 30s and said that if fraud offenses were removed “that bumps our average up to 57% clearance rate.” He noted the national average for property-crime clearance is about 17 percent.
Staff described several recent incidents and investigative outcomes that underpin those numbers: two aggravated-assault investigations were cleared by arrest after on-scene citizen intervention in DeBary and a follow-up arrest in Orange City; several residential and vehicle burglaries were referred to the Criminal Investigations Division for fingerprint and evidence processing; and an intimidation case involving threatening texts led to a warrant, which investigative staff said remains active.
Lieutenant Calkins of the investigative services section reported investigators were completing legal process and awaiting forensic results on several burglary cases. “We’re completing some additional legal process for these cases,” Calkins said, describing latent-print and follow-up work.
The briefing stressed that fraud complaints make up a substantial share of property-related reports. Speakers noted the sheriff’s office has a newly formed financial-crimes capability (discussed separately at the meeting) and that fraud investigations can lengthen case processing and depress short-term clearance figures.
Officials said most of the incidents discussed have been referred to detectives or CID and that arrests or warrants have been obtained in a number of the highlighted incidents. No new policy or ordinance was proposed at the meeting; the session consisted of reporting, case updates and direction to continue investigative work.
