POLICE AGENCIES GET GRANTS; SIMI VALLEY, VENTURA COUNTY TO UPGRADE COMMUNICATIONS.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Daily News Staff Writer Two local police agencies hope to improve communication among their own officers and with each other by using equipment to be purchased with $5.5 million in federal grants awarded this week. The Simi Valley Police Department The Simi Valley Police Department (SVPD) is the police department of the city of Simi Valley, California. The department currently has over 120 sworn officers, and more than 65 support personnel[1]. The department has a patrol area that covers over 39 square miles. and the Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. got word Wednesday that their applications for community-oriented policing-services grants from the federal COPS program had been approved. Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. will receive $1.46 million to purchase mobile computers for each of more than 30 patrol cars and to upgrade dispatch A dispatch or dispatches can refer to:
adapted for analysis, storage and retrieval on a computer. computerized axial tomography see computed tomography. records. The Sheriff's Department will use its $4.29 million grant to help implement the Ventura County integrated justice-information system, which officials estimated will cost nearly $12 million. The two agencies were among 31 in the state that collectively will get $32.7 million from the grant program this year. Simi Valley officials said the mobile computers for patrol cars will be especially important to the department. ``It will help them get information more quickly by having direct and ready access to the justice databases, as well as increase their safety in the field because they can get access to information from their cars when they make a traffic stop,'' said Laura Magelnicki, assistant city manager. The COPS grant is expected to cover only part of the costs, so city funds will pay more than $486,000 of the costs. Magelnicki said the upgrades for the computer-aided records and dispatch systems are expected to be important in a countywide coun·ty·wide adv. & adj. Throughout a whole county: found at locations countywide; a countywide search. Adj. 1. effort for law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). to share information more effectively. City officials hope to start making purchases within a year, after hiring a consultant to study the costs of implementing changes and coming up with a multiyear plan for installation. Sheriff's officials said their grant is expected to help pay for integrated subsystems to maintain files and related records for retrieval by county sheriff's deputies and local police agencies. The COPS grants cover about three-quarters of the cost for new technology, equipment or salaries for a civilian or community-service officer for one year. |
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