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The Wilmington Area School District was awarded a $217,313 project grant from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program. The grant will fund school safety programs and technology improvements to enhance security at schools and on school grounds in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. Specifically, the district will implement evidence-based programs...

The Town of Wilmington, Vermont was awarded a $125,000 Project Grant on October 1, 2024 from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The grant funding is intended to enhance the town's law enforcement capacity and community policing efforts. Anticipated outcomes include increased engagement in community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and...

The Delaware Criminal Justice Council will receive $600,000 under a four-year Project Grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance Treatment Court Discretionary Grant Program (CFDA 16.585). The funding will support enhancements to the Wilmington Community Court (WCC) through September 30, 2026. Key activities include narrowing the WCC's geographic focus to better serve the historically underserved community in Wilmington, Delaware;...

The Winston-Salem Police Department (WSPD) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will be used over a 2-year period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026 to hire a full-time Wellness Advocate, provide contracted mental health counseling, and deliver wellness training for WSPD officers. The...

The City of Winston-Salem Police Department was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Comprehensive Forensic DNA Analysis Grant Program (CFDA 16.036). The funding will be used to enhance the department's ability to investigate, solve, and prosecute unsolved homicides through advanced forensic DNA analysis and investigative genetic genealogy. Key activities include contracting with a private forensic laboratory for single nucleotide polymorphism...

This Project Grant award of $125,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The award will support the Town of Blades in Seaford, DE to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Key anticipated outcomes include engagement in planned...

The City of Dover, Delaware will receive $375,000 through September 2027 from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services Program under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to hire additional career law enforcement officers. Funding will support increasing the jurisdiction's community policing capacity to prevent and disrupt crime and violence through the hire or rehire of law enforcement personnel. The COPS Office aims to enhance...

The West Memphis Police Department was awarded a $1.7 million project grant from the Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to advance community policing through officer hiring. Funding under this October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2027 award will allow the West Memphis Police Department to hire additional career law enforcement officers to increase community policing capacity and prevent and disrupt crime and violence in West Memphis,...

This Project Grant award of $250,000 was provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The funding will enable the City of Monroe, a municipal government in North Carolina, to hire and/or rehire additional law enforcement officers to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes include greater engagement...

The Westchester County District Attorney's Office was awarded $500,000 under the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance's DNA Backlog Reduction Program to add an additional prosecutor to its newly formed Cold Case Bureau. The Cold Case Bureau, currently staffed by one prosecutor, is responsible for reviewing over 100 unsolved homicide and violent crime cases, 27 of which have identified suspect DNA evidence. An additional prosecutor will allow the Bureau to further investigate...