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Local Law Enforcement Block Grants Program <br />Florida Department of Community Affairs <br />b. Paying overtime to presently employed law enforcement officers and necessary <br />support personnel for the purpose of increasing the number of hours worked by <br />such personnel. <br />C. Procuring equipment, technology, and other material directly related to basic law <br />enforcement functions. <br />2. Enhancing security measures in and around schools, and in and around any other facility <br />or location that the unit of local government considers a special risk for incidents of crime. <br />3. Establishing or supporting drug courts. To be eligible for funding, a drug court program <br />must include the following: <br />a. Continuing j udicial supervision over offenders with substance abuse problems, but <br />who are not violent offenders; <br />b. Integrating administration of other sanctions and services, which shall include: <br />mandatory periodic testing of each participant for the use of controlled <br />substances or other addictive substances during any period of supervised <br />release or probation; <br />ii. substance abuse treatment for each participant; <br />iii. probation or other supervised release involving the possible prosecution, <br />confinement, or incarceration because of noncompliance with program <br />requirements or failure to show satisfactory progress; and <br />iv. programmatic, offender management and aftercare services such as relapse <br />prevention, vocational job training, and job and housing placement. <br />4. Enhancing the adjudication of cases involving violent offenders, including cases involving <br />violent juvenile offenders. For the purposes of this program, violent offender means a <br />person charged with committing a Part I violent crime under the Uniform Crime Reports. <br />5. Establishing a multi jurisdictional task force, particularly in rural areas, composed of law <br />enforcement officials representing units of local government. This task force will work <br />with Federal law enforcement officials to prevent and control crime. <br />6. Establishing crime prevention programs involving cooperation between community <br />residents and law enforcement personnel to control, detect, or investigate crime or the <br />prosecution of criminals. <br />7. Defraying the cost of indemnification insurance for law enforcement officers. <br />SubsrantApplication Package SFY1000 Revised 911199 <br />Section H - 3 <br />