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Attachment A <br />City: Westminster <br />2015 -DJ -BX -0226 <br />The City of Westminster proposes to use the 2015 Justice Assistance Grant Program <br />fundingasfollows: <br />PURPOSE AREAS <br />JAG funds may be used for state and local initiatives, technical assistance, strategic planning, <br />research and evaluation (including forensics), data collection, training, personnel, equipment, <br />forensic laboratories, supplies, contractual support, and criminal justice information systems that <br />will improve or enhance such areas as: <br />Law enforcement programs. <br />PROJECT NARRATIVE <br />Proposed program activities— <br />The grant funds are intended to cover overtime costs in the Detectives unit. The goal of the <br />project is to reduce the backlog of cases in the Detectives division and to gather additional <br />evidence on active cases. <br />Program need— <br />The Westminster Police Department is fiscally constrained from deploying the necessary <br />investigative assets needed to successfully address these surges in criminal activity. Stated <br />conversely: additional funding can provide for the appropriate surveillance and follow -up <br />investigative resources needed to investigate individual crimes and to interrupt criminal <br />patterns. <br />PROJECT GOALS <br />Reduce backlog of cases in the Detectives division and gather additional evidence on active <br />cases. <br />PROJECT STRATEGIES <br />Experience has demonstrated that early and aggressive investigative activities are critical to <br />bringing emergent neighborhood- focused criminal activity under control before it escalates to <br />far more serious levels. This request for JAG funding is to enhance and supplement (not <br />replace) the investigative activities of the Westminster Police Department when <br />unusual/high incident crime situations arise. The JAG funding will underwrite the costs of <br />necessary overtime to conduct investigations. The timing and nature of additional resources <br />deployed through the JAG funds will correspond directly to the characteristics of emergent <br />criminal activity in the community and the means to best remedy those problems. As such, <br />additional deployment through JAG funding is likely to include: <br />Additional surveillance activities <br />• Additional participation in coordinated multi- jurisdictional investigations <br />Additional neighborhood -based special operations <br />More intensive follow -up <br />Page 21 of 22 <br />