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About the Chula Vista Police Department 

The Chula Vista Police Department is organized into four divisions: Administrative Services Division; Patrol Operations Division; Investigations Division; and, Fiscal Operations/Research Division.

The Administrative Services Division of the Chula Vista Police Department consists of the Professional Standards Unit, Police Support Services, Crime Lab, Public Information, Community Relations and the City Jail. The Investigations Division consists of numerous units whose officers, detectives and civilians, with the exception of the School Resource Unit, work predominately plain-clothes assignments. It's units include Investigations, Crimes of Violence, Special Investigations and associated task forces, Family Protection, Property Crimes and School Resource Officers. Fiscal Operations/Research Division, commanded by a civilian manager, consists of the Budget and Analysis Unit as well as the Research and Analysis Unit.

The Patrol Operations Division consists of Patrol, Traffic, DUI Enforcement, S.T.O.P. Program, Street/Gang Team, Technology and Communications. According to the Chula Vista Police Department, “The Patrol Division provides quality law enforcement to the residents and visitors to the City of Chula Vista 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This uniformed division embraces the concept of Community Oriented Policing and strives to further enhance it's partnership with the community. Patrol division officers work 10-hour days, 4 days a week.

Supplementing the individual officers beat knowledge is the Tough On Crime (TOC) program. TOC develops information from the Crime Analysis Unit as well as information from Officers and Detectives, and then utilizes crime-mapping techniques to depict a picture of what is happening throughout the city in a simple and concise manner. This information allows Officers to be more aware of crime within the city and assists officers and supervisors in making informed patrol decisions.”

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chulavistaca.gov

Tom Basinski is a 35-year veteran of the Chula Vista Police Department who almost didn’t become a cop. When he was 18 years old Tom entered the seminary at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.  While he earned a degree in English Literature, he never earned a Catholic priest’s collar.  In 1969, after finishing college, Tom returned to his hometown where he joined the police department.  In 1970, he traveled to California and joined the Chula Vista Police Department.  Over the next 34 years, Tom would not only become a homicide detective but an acknowledged writer of true crime short stories.

While No Good Deed is his first book, over the years he has written over 125 true crime stories published in various pulp magazines. As a homicide detective and magazine writer Tom would meet a fellow police author and San Diego resident Joseph Wambaugh.  Wambaugh who penned best sellers such as the "Onion Field," “The Blue Knight” and “Black Marble” inspired Tom to write “No Good Deed.”

Before he published his first book, Basinski has been a contributing editor of the award-winning Law Enforcement Quarterly, the publication of the San Diego District Attorney and San Diego Magazine. “No Good Deed” is a true crime story set in San Diego.  The actual case took three years to solve and had many twists and turns on the road to the suspect’s conviction.  Tom Basinski is also the author The Cross-Country Rapist: The Shocking True Story of an Eighteen-Year Manhunt for a Killer on the Run.