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MEMORANDUM <br />Criminal Investkat ons Di_v_ig <br />TO: Chief David Valentin (via Chain of Comm d) <br />FROM: Detective Sergeant Fidencio Zepeda <br />DATE: February 19, 2019 <br />SUBJECT: Domestic violence grant <br />In 2016, the Santa Ana Police Department was awarded a three-year $136,000 grant from the Department <br />of Justice -Office on Violence Against Women (OV W) to collaborate with Human Options, a victim service <br />provider. The grant has provided funding for the Domestic Violence Response Car (DVI) which staffs an <br />officer along with a victim advocate aimed at providing services to victims of domestic violence. The grant <br />has also provided funding for training, community outreach and overtime used to investigate domestic <br />violence cases. We are in our third and final year of our grant with Human Options and the collaboration <br />has been successful. Patrol officers have received additional roll -call training in the area of domestic <br />violence. <br />Special Crimes detectives and Human Options staff have agreed to enter the c mp�f ' process of <br />renewing the grant. Human Options is the lead agency in the grant and is seeki $190,000 to e awarded <br />to the Santa Ana Police Department. The funds from this grant will be used to prove e services to victims <br />of domestic violence by staffing the Domestic Violence Response Car (DV1). The grant will also be used <br />to pay for overtimemeused to investigate domestic violence cases. <br />I have attached a copy of the MOU between Human Options and the City of Santa Ana as well as a <br />Certification of Eligibility to be signed by Acting City Manager Steven A. Mendoza. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Sergeant Fiden&o Zepeda #2459 <br />