The chesterfield police department will use FY24 microgrant funding to support the national center for open and unsolved cases (ncouc), which is a partnership between the US marshals service, virginia…

The Chesterfield Police Department was awarded a $175,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The funding will be used to enhance the National Center for Open and Unsolved Cases (NCOUC), a partnership between the U.S. Marshals Service, Virginia State Police, Chesterfield County Police Department, and the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police. The grant will improve the existing NCOUC platform, add advanced geographical and analytical features, provide secure real-time communication, and deliver a training course to teach investigators, analysts, and civilian volunteers on the use of the program. Additionally, the project plans to start linking Crime Stoppers and Crime Solvers sites together in Virginia as a pilot initiative. The grant period runs from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2026.

The chesterfield police department will use FY24 microgrant funding to support the national center for open and unsolved cases (ncouc), which is a partnership between the US marshals service, virginia state police, chesterfield county police department, and the virginia association of chiefs of police. An initial funded project in 2020, resulted in the development of an operational capability and platform that linked people to open/unsolved cases, cases to cases, and cases to people using locations in common, called idna. This microgrant project will improve the existing platform, add advanced geographical and analytical features, provide for secure real-time communication, and a training course to teach investigators, analysts, and civilian volunteers on use of the program. In this phase, we plan to start linking crime stoppers and crime solvers sites together in virginia as a pilot.