The Houston Police Department has suspended more than 260,000 department-wide cases since 2016 due to a lack of personnel, Police Chief Troy Finner said in a statement Monday. Finner’s announcement comes days after he announced the department is planning to investigate more than 4,000 sexual assault cases suspended for the same reason. The police department began to use the code in 2016. Finner said police officers continued to use the code after he directed them to stop in 2021. During a press conference Thursday, Finner said the department has so far reviewed 700 of the 4,000 suspended sexual assault cases. He said that some of those reports were duplicates and mislabeled. He assigned 32 police department employees to investigated those cases. Read about the 100,000 suspended property crime cases in the list of suspended cases mentioned above at HoustonPublicMedia.org. #HoustonCrime #HoustonPoliceDepartment