$1M to fight crime in 2 counties
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
BY WILLIAM KLEINKNECHT
Star-Ledger Staff
The Justice Department has awarded $1 million in grants to local law
enforcement agencies in Essex and Monmouth counties to combat
violent crime.
The grants, which were announced yesterday by U.S. Sens. Frank
Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, are aimed at helping police in 10
towns in Essex and three in Monmouth purchase equipment and beef up
street patrols.
"New Jersey's finest will have the funds they need to acquire new
protective gear, update communications systems and increase
community police patrols," Lautenberg said in a statement. "These
resources will help law enforcement remove drugs from our streets
and make high-crime areas safer."
The grants are earmarked under the Edward Byrne Memorial State and
Local Law Enforcement Assistance Grant Program, designed to help
reduce the incidence of violent crime. It is named after a New York
City police officer executed by a Queens drug dealer in 1988.
Among the uses of the grant money will be computers for police in
Newark and East Orange, in-car and on-motorcycle video systems for
Bloomfield, a new prisoner-transport vehicle in Irvington, increased
youth gang investigations in Maplewood and stepped-up foot patrols
in Maplewood, Orange and South Orange.
In addition, West Orange will buy a new evidence storage locker
system, Essex County will improve its records management system, and
Asbury Park, Long Branch and Neptune will pool funds to buy radios
and other communications equipment.
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