Recovery Act Grant Program

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 4, the Idaho State Police (ISP) will expand its criminal information-sharing capabilities. ISP hosts the Idaho Criminal Intelligence Center (IC)2, a federal, state, and local criminal information-sharing facility. (IC)2 is implementing a pioneer statewide intelligence database and is cooperating with various city, county, and federal partners in coordinating case analysis, deconfliction, and intelligence-sharing. ISP will use grant funds to accomplish three major goals: 1) identify, hire, and train contract analysts in outlying regional offices to fulfill analysis and coordination efforts between the (IC)2, ISP, and local rural Idaho agencies; 2) establish and implement a statewide web-based intelligence database using regional analysts as the local points of contact for coordination and sharing; and 3) assist the (IC)2 in identifying and training local officers as intelligence liaison officers for the passing and sharing of local agency criminal intelligence.

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