Gangs / Narcotics

The Valley Gang Team is a proactive enforcement group responsible for gang suppression. The Valley Gang Team’s mission is to ensure the public’s safety by impacting the criminal element, focusing on street gangs and their members. They identify and document existing and emerging criminal street gangs and their members, gather criminal intelligence, suppress and eliminate criminal street gang activity, arrest and assist in the conviction of criminal street gang members.While investigating street level crime and conducting complex investigations into large-scale criminal organizations, the Valley Gang Team monitors gang activity and provides support to the Sheriff’s patrol stations as well as allied agencies. The Valley Gang Team networks with other gang investigators in the region to develop anti-gang strategies to curb the criminal gang activity infesting neighborhoods in San Bernardino County. The success of the Sheriff’s Department’s gang suppression effort relies greatly on the mutual collaboration of all local law enforcement agencies, with the Valley Gang Team being the hub of the endeavor. 

The High Desert Gang Team is a Task Force designed team comprised of Sheriff’s personnel, San Bernardino County Probation, and the FBI. The team focuses their efforts on gang crime suppression, intelligence, and identification. These investigators work diligently contacting gang members, serving search warrants and making arrests for gang-related crimes using high-level investigative techniques. Their area of responsibilities covers eight County patrol stations including the area of Needles, Morongo, 29 palms and the entire High Desert. 

The Gang Intelligence Team (G.I.T) is a Federal Gang Task Force comprised of law enforcement personnel from Homeland Security Investigations, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, the San Bernardino County Probation Department, the California Highway Patrol, and California State Parole. G.I.T conducts in-depth, comprehensive gang investigations that target the most violent, disruptive, and influential criminal street and prison gangs in our communities. The desired goal of the Gang Intelligence Team is to disrupt and dismantle these criminal organizations through State and Federal prosecution. 

The Riverside DEA Task Force groups conduct long-term, complex investigations targeting major narcotics trafficking organizations in the Inland Empire. The task force team members consist of investigators from the Drug Enforcement Administration, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, and other local police agencies. Disrupting and dismantling drug trafficking organizations is the primary goal of the Task Force.