Fiscal Note
This new one-year grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice Community Policing Development program, provides funding to support activities of the South Madison Police-Community Advisory Board pilot program. A MPD Captain and Neighborhood Officers will be involved in the program as part of their regular outreach duties. There is no impact on the levy.
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Authorizing the Mayor and Chief of Police to accept a $37,880 USDOJ COPS Community Policing Development grant award for the Madison Police Department's South Madison Police-Community Advisory Board pilot program; and amend budgets accordingly.
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WHEREAS, the U.S. Department Of Justice Community-Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office's Community Policing Development (CPD) grant program advances the practice of community policing in law enforcement agencies through training and technical assistance, the development of innovative community policing strategies, applied research, guidebooks, and best practices that are national in scope; and
WHEREAS, the COPS CPD Microgrant Initiative is a seed grant program for law enforcement agencies, funding innovative ideas where relatively small amounts of funding are required to carry out self-contained or demonstration projects; and
WHEREAS, the Madison Police Department has applied for and been awarded a COPS Microgrant Initiative grant for "Building Trust through the South Madison Police-Community Advisory Board" to assist in developing crime prevention strategies and agency policies, as well as provide input on policing issues which will improve trust and perceptions of fairness through transparency, community outreach and problem solving; and
WHEREAS, the Department identified just this process in its 2016 Current Status & Plan for 21st Century Policing Report of MPD Efforts in Relation to the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing; and
WHEREAS, the key strategy will be building relationships with residents in South Madison,...
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