But in fact, Mr. Catterson created a domestic violence unit in 1990.

She was offered a job at 1 Police Plaza, a post in the domestic violence unit, but she turned it down.

But he and the other these new chiefs have also started undercover narcotics squads, domestic violence units, internal affairs bureaus and, in one case, a dive team.

In 2003, she joined the Prosecutions Branch of the provincial justice department and worked as a Crown attorney in the domestic violence unit.

The domestic violence unit reviewed about 10,250 cases.

She went to work in the Westchester district attorney's office, eventually becoming head of its domestic violence unit.

The Suffolk sheriff's domestic violence unit served 4,513 such orders in 2001 and 4,803 in 2002, and expects even more this year.

Mr. Browne also started the department's domestic violence unit and a Drug Abuse Resistance Education school program.

As head of the largest prosecutor's office in the state, she established many new programs, including a domestic violence unit and one of the nation's first Drug Courts.

She worked for six years with the domestic violence unit, and then with the criminal organization prosecution unit.