Opal Deeds
Opal Deeds, Sergeant
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Career Highlights
- Previous Task Force Officer with the Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force
- Defensive Tactics Instructor
- Advanced Officer Safety Training Instructor
- 2020 Unit Meritorious Award recipient for 93% Homicide solve rate
Opal Deeds
is a Sergeant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Opal started her investigative career working as an undercover detective in the Vice Section. Opal conducted hundreds of undercover operations, including street level and casino prostitution stings, pimp reversals posing both as a juvenile and an adult, juvenile decoy investigations, adult bookstore operations, and massage parlors involved in international sex trafficking. Throughout her career Opal has worked with the Narcotics Section in undercover operations in night clubs, day/pool clubs, and the Electric Daisy Carnival.
Opal was a sworn Federal Task Force Officer assigned to the Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force. As a part of this task force, Opal investigated adult sex trafficking cases.
In 2018, Opal became a Defensive Tactics Instructor and Advanced Officer Safety Training Instructor. Opal regularly instructs officers in current defensive tactics and yearly scenario-based training. Opal is active in training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and is a purple belt.
In the beginning of 2020, Opal was assigned to the Special Victims Section. Opal investigated cases of child abuse & neglect and all child deaths as a result of abuse and/or neglect, suicide, and overdose.
Opal was previously assigned to the Homicide Section and was one of twenty-four detectives. Opal has investigated over ninety homicides and worked cases with numerous homicide detectives throughout the country.
In April of 2023, Opal was promoted to sergeant. She currently is assigned as a supervisor in the patrol division.