Nevada Law Enforcement Submissions to "N-DEx"

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) solicits applications for initiatives which assist law enforcement in rural states and rural areas. The program helps rural states and rural areas to prevent and combat crime, especially drug-related crime, and provides for national support efforts, including training and technical assistance programs strategically targeted to address rural needs.

The Assistance to Rural Law Enforcement to Combat Crime and Drugs Program, administered by BJA, helps rural states and rural areas prevent and combat crime, especially drug-related crime, and provides for national support efforts, including training and technical assistance programs strategically targeted to address rural needs. In addition, priority consideration will be given to local law enforcement agencies in rural areas where the unit of local government is not eligible to receive a direct allocation from the Recovery Act Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program or received a direct allocation that was $50,000 or less. Applicants were invited to submit a proposal under any one of the following categories to: (1) combat rural crime; (2) improve rural law enforcement investigations; (3) enhance rural detention and jail operations; (4) facilitate rural justice information sharing; or (5) develop a national training and technical assistance program.

Under Category 1, the Nevada Department of Public Safety (DPS) will use the grant funds to support the DPS Technology Bureau in combating rural crime. The DPS Technology Bureau will sponsor the project and coordinate with nine law enforcement agencies throughout Nevada. The project goal is to have the data from these nine agencies available for search via N-Dex, all three Nevada Fusion Centers, the DPS Investigation Division, as well as for law enforcement agencies nationwide to have access to Nevada state, local, and tribal incidents. DPS will order applicable hardware for each agency and hire a contract programmer and a contract systems specialist who will work with each of the nine agencies, providing data extraction programs which will be sent through the DPS data center's Criminal Justice Information System connection to N-Dex.

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