Federal Grants
This is an overview of two (2) major drug enforcement related grants program,
the Justice Assistance Grant Program and the Rocky Mountain High
Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program that involve the Wyoming Division of
Criminal Investigation. Revised 09-29-97. The Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG): This program provides
federal funds for anti-drug efforts in the State of Wyoming. The Program is
administered on the federal level by the United States Department of
Justice-Bureau of Justice Assistance. This program is administered on the state
level by the Office of the Wyoming Attorney General-Division of Criminal
Investigation. This grant is awarded on an annual basis. This grant is used for
the following:
- Investigation: Funding for five (5) Regional Drug Enforcement Teams
composed of local and state officers that provide statewide coverage to
investigate illegal drugs and violent crime.
- Identification-Records Systems: Funding for criminal history records
and improvements of the State of Wyoming criminal history records system.
- Forensics: Funding for the State Crime Laboratory to provide forensic
services to the criminal justice system involving illegal drugs and violent
crime.
- Training: Funding for the State Crime Laboratory to provide forensic
services to the criminal justice system involving illegal drugs and violent
crime.
Rocky Mountain High Intentisty Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA): The
Rocky Mountain HIDTA was created in 1997. It is composed of the States of
Colorado, Utah, Montana and Wyoming. This program is administered on the federal
level by the Office of the President-Office of National Drug Control Policy
(ONDCP). The program is administered on a regional level through the Rocky
Mountain HIDTA Board which has representatives from local, state and federal law
enforcement and prosecutors from Colorado, Utah, Montana and Wyoming. This grant
is awarded on an annual basis and provides funding to local, state and federal
law enforcement agencies in the Rocky Mountain HIDTA. In Wyoming, both local and
state agencies that have received HIDTA funding. Funds received from HIDTA in
1997 for state agencies is being used for the following:
- Investigation: Funding to upgrade and improve existing criminal
intelligence indices and investigation case management systems at the Wyoming
Division of Criminal Investigation including links to similar systems on the
state level with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the Utah Division of
Investigation.
- Training: Funding to the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation
for training of local and state officers in the investigation of Clandestine
Laboratories, Spanish Language Training, Spanish Translation Services and Street
Gang Enforcement.
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