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AttachementA 2016JAG EXPENDITURE FORM 2016-DJ-BX-0746 <br />Grantee: City of Garden Grove <br />The grantee proposes to use the 2016Justice Assistance Grant Program funding as follows. <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, forensic <br />laboratories, supplies, contractual support, and criminal justice information systems that will improveor <br />enhance such areasas: <br />Corrections and community corrections programs. <br />PROJECT NARRATIVE <br />The Police Department will use 2016 JAG funds to pay a portion of its jail services contract. The <br />first contract was put into place in 2000, and has saved the Department tens of thousands of man-hours. <br />What was previously at least a two-hour process for the arresting officer now takes only 15 minutes, <br />allowing the officer to return to patrolling the streets. The jail services contract is an indispensable <br />component of Department operationsand iskeyto maximizing officer's time spent out inthe community. <br />PR03ECTGOALS <br />The Department's goal for utilizing a jail services contract is to create operational efficiencies and increase <br />time patrol officer's time spent "on the streets." The time saved is equal to the productive hours of more <br />than six patrol officers, and this time can be used to augment patrol operations. <br />PROJECT STRATEGIES <br />Contracting out jail services allows the Police Department to concentrate much more of its efforts on <br />community safety rather than expending energy and resources on jail operations. Prior to the contract, <br />officers would spend approximately two hours processing and transporting an arrestee. If the arrestee <br />required medical clearance, that process could be extended by several hours. Now, sworn police officers <br />complete <br />1 <br />