PSP National Training and Technical Assistance Program - Local Law Enforcement Violent Crime Strategy Enhancement

The National Public Safety Partnership (PSP or the “Partnership”), administered by BJA, is designed to enhance the capacity of state, tribal, and local law enforcement and prosecutors in jurisdictions experiencing a precipitous increase in violent crime to enhance public safety by introducing a new framework of federal/local collaboration. For participating sites, it is a three-year engagement that provides expedited delivery of DOJ resources and coordinated training and technical assistance (TTA) in seven core areas: illegal gun violence, federal partnerships, crime analysis, technology, criminal justice collaboration, investigations, and community engagement.

PSP augments the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program, which is focused on violent crime. PSP TTA providers must demonstrate a capacity to coordinate proactively with the PSN National TTA providers in order to enhance collaboration, knowledge sharing, and the application of available resources to reduce violent crime.

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The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) provides an innovative framework to enhance federal support of state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecution authorities in enhancing public safety. PSP serves as a Department of Justice (DOJ)-wide program that enables participating sites to consult with and receive coordinated training and technical assistance (TTA) to support violence reduction strategies. CNA has served as a TTA provider with the PSP program since its inception in 2014.

Through this supplement award, CNA will continue to provide resources and improve local capacities in eight PSP focus areas (gun violence, federal collaboration, crime analysis, criminal justice collaboration, technology, investigations, community engagement, and constitutional policing). We will continue to deliver high-quality TTA to the fiscal year (FY) 2018 and FY 2019 cohorts and to the 10 new cities accepted for the FY 2021 cohort. In addition to the TTA we currently provide to support the PSP program, our TTA will include the following activities: (1) expand TTA to up to 10 additional sites selected as the FY 2021 PSP cohort, to include support from Strategic Site Liaisons and Analysts (TTA Program Specialists); (2) continue to provide robust project management to support TTA coordination for new and existing PSP sites; (3) embed subject matter experts (SMEs) in FY 2021 PSP cohort of sites (as requested) to enhance TTA services, and provide resources to them to improve local capacities in the eight PSP core focus areas; (4) provide PSP assessments, including tracking and implementation support, to enhance local and federal capacities to address violent crime; (5) guide the development of violent crime reduction strategic plans for all PSP sites to support sustainable violence reduction strategies; (6) enhance analytical support by providing crime analysts for new sites; (7) continue and expand analytic and evaluation support to the PSP program; and (8) extend TTA support to current PSP sites that will be continuing their PSP engagement beyond three years because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Ms. Vivian Elliott will continue to oversee and support these TTA efforts in her current role as Project Director and Manager, with the support of a robust leadership team, TTA Program Specialists, and evaluation analysts. In addition, we have a well-integrated team of more than 250 national leaders and SMEs who bring specialized expertise, skills, and experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating successful, evidence-based violence reduction strategies and practices.