Justice Assistance Grant Funding FY 2011

The Coeur d’Alene Police Department has applied for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Local Solicitation.  This is a formula disparate grant that allows law enforcement funds to improve programs or technologies within set criteria.  This year’s allocations are $63,998 for Coeur d’Alene Police Department and $29,392 for Kootenai County for a total of $93,390. 

The funding does not require a match and will not be used to acquire additional personnel.  The funds will be used to enhance some of the technology in use by the Department including improvements to the network with surrounding agencies and server upgrades. The grant will be administered by the Coeur d’Alene Police Department and an MOU is being created between the two governments.  Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office has identified their own technological improvements and will be using their funds to accomplish this task.   The details about this grant can be found at:  http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/11JAGLocalSol.pdf.

Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Funding

The Coeur d’Alene Police Department have submitted an application for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program Local Solicitation grant for fiscal year 2009. The Coeur d'Alene Police Department is eligible for $76,669 in federal money. The grant is under the Department of Justice. The Justice Department's mission is to assist state, local, and tribal efforts to prevent or reduce crime and violence. The notice came out on May 22, 2009 with the deadline being July 9, 2009.

Cd’A Police plan to use the allotted funds to aid in the “P25” (narrow band) compliance requirements for our agency. A federal mandate was put onto emergency services to change to a digital narrow band frequency to better aid in technology and interoperability with various jurisdictions and disciplines. The Police Department has been hard at work achieving this compliance and working closely with Kootenai County. However, with the change in frequencies comes a change in hardware and software needs. These costs have come up to about $500,000.

The Police Department and Kootenai County are using some other grant money for a partial funding of the program. This money could be used to further our compliance by allowing the purchase of up to 23 new portable radios for first responding officers.

There is no match to the grant.

For additional information on this grant, please contact Sergeant Bill Tilson at Cd’A PD at 769-2320.