2024 State of Delaware BJAG

The Delaware Criminal Justice Council is the state criminal justice planning agency for Delaware and oversees the use of Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant funds in Delaware.  Delaware’s Byrne JAG strategy is developed with the assistance and direction of the Drug and Violent Crime Advisory Committee, a subcommittee of the Criminal Justice Council.  The Drug and Violent Crime Advisory Committee sets the State’s priority areas under Byrne JAG and determines which projects will best address those priorities. In addition, a new 2024 5 yr. Strategic Plan was developed and submitted as part of the FY 24 application.

Programs being funded in FY 2024 will be those for the administration and monitoring of the FY 23 BJAG grant programs, the support of SENTAC by providing staffing and supplies, maintaining and updating the Bench Book and staffing meetings and to support the Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) in their mission of maintaining and gathering data for the improvement of the criminal justice system.  Some of the priorities Byrne JAG funds sought to address with FY23 funds, and will continue with FY24, are the yearly Police Chiefs Law Enforcement Training. We will also continue to support our States Department of Homeland Security with its Statewide Law Enforcement Accreditation to assist smaller departments with Accreditation. Delaware mandates that all law enforcement agencies are accredited and maintain their accreditation. We will also continue our statewide FBI LEEDA Advanced Training for the development of supervisors and staff for all agencies both large and small. We are also assisting the Department of Corrections and Law Enforcement with their recruiting and retention initiatives. We will also continue our efforts statewide in, re-entry, and drug use/interdiction, training, technology advances for the courts, Department of Justice, Department of Defense Services, law enforcement and the criminal justice system overall.

The Goals and Objectives of the project are outlined in the project design and in the Strategic Plan in accordance with BJA guidelines and will be collected and uploaded as directed by BJA.