| TRAFICANT, James A., Jr., |
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1998
Washington, D.C. – U. S. Rep. James A. Traficant, Jr. (D–OH) announced
today that the Brookfield Township Police Department and Poland Township
have been awarded a total of $121,923 in federal law enforcement grants
to hire additional police officers. The grants were made by
the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Policing Services
(COPS) under the COPS Universal Hiring Program.
The Brookfield Township Police Department was awarded a $46,923
COPS grant to hire two additional part-time police officers engaged in
community policing. Poland Township was awarded a COPS grant of $75,000
to hire one additional full-time community police officer. The grants
will fund up to 75 percent of the total salary and benefits of each of
the officers over the next three years. Funding will begin once the
new officers have been hired or on the date of the award, whichever is
later, and will be provided over the course of the grant.
In the last Congress, Traficant attached an amendment to a Justice Department appropriations bill requiring local police departments that receive COPS grants to show a net increase in the number of street cops. The Traficant amendment is now federal law.
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