It is housed in separate Borough Patrols (Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn).
The Special Victims Division does not investigate murder or child sexual exploitation material cases.
Child sexual exploitation material cases are investigated by various computer crime squads and task forces.
If a sex crime is involved, the Special Victims Division may assist in the investigation.
In June 2022, the Justice Department announced a federal investigation into the division's "deficiencies", including “failing to conduct basic investigative steps and instead shaming and abusing survivors and re-traumatizing them during investigations.”[1][2] The American television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spin-off in the Law & Order franchise, follows the cases of a fictional NYPD SVU division.