2008 Justice Assistance Grant Program

The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) allows states, tribes, and local governments to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime based on their own local needs and conditions. Grant funds can be used for state and local initiatives, technical assistance, training, personnel, equipment, supplies, contractual support, and information systems for criminal justice for any one or more of the following purpose areas: 1) law enforcement programs; 2) prosecution and court programs; 3) prevention and education programs; 4) corrections and community corrections programs; 5) drug treatment programs; 6) planning, evaluation, and technology improvement programs; and 7) crime victim and witness programs (other than compensation).

The Miami-Dade Police Department will use Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 JAG funds to support its Robbery Intervention Detail (RID). The RID's Telecommunications Unit, through cell-phone tracking equipment, was directly responsible for the apprehension of over three-hundred wanted violent criminal offenders. Grant funds will support the equipment and related training necessary for the RID and its units (the Wanted Squad and the Telecommunications Unit) to continue to combat violent crime.

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