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Participate in Webinar on Law Enforcement's Role in Response to Drug Endangered Children

Register to participate in The Youngest Victims of the Opioid Epidemic: Law Enforcement’s Role in the Response, a webinar offered through the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program that is taking place October 22, 2020, at 2 p.m. ET.

This webinar will address drug endangered children (DEC) and associated risk factors, the impact of the opioid crisis on DEC and their families, and ways law enforcement...

Special Agent William Sentner, III (Posthumously) (U.S. Department of Justice, Miami, FL)

On Wednesday, June 21, 2006, Special Agent William Sentner of the Miami, FL, Field Office, Investigations Division, Office of Inspector General (OIG) was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in an investigation involving corrupt prison guards in a federal prison facility in Tallahassee, Florida. As a result of the investigation, six prison guards were indicted for sexually abusing female inmates, smuggling contraband into...

DNA Capacity Enhancement for Backlog Reduction (CEBR) Program

With this program, BJA assists states and units of local government with existing crime laboratories to increase the capacity of public forensic DNA and DNA database laboratories to process more DNA samples for the FBI's Combined DNA Index System.

Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program

This program helps address the extreme shortage of board-certified forensic pathologists in the United States and provides medical examiner and coroner offices with the resources to become accredited and maintain that accreditation.

Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA

This program assists law enforcement and prosecutors to address and prosecute violent crime cold cases and decrease the number of violent crime cold cases awaiting prosecution.

President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice Concludes with Final Hearings on Respect for Law Enforcement and Rule of Law

The President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice was established under Executive Order No. 13896 signed by President Trump. The Commission serves the important function of studying ways to make American law enforcement the most trusted and effective guardians of our communities.

The Commission recently held its final hearings, receiving testimony on respect for law enforcement and the rule of law. The hearings were...