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Exhibit A: Proiect Description for New PSN Initiatives <br /> Introduction <br /> Please provide a short description of the project you propose to implement. <br /> In response to a recent sharp increase in violent gun crime, on July 1, 2006 the Decatur Police <br /> Department introduced the Anti-Crime Team (ACT). The overall mission of the ACT is to reduce the <br /> violent crime in our City. The main enforcement focus is placed on gangs, drugs and guns as these <br /> three related issues are our major causes for violent crime. The team focuses their enforcement efforts <br /> on habitual violent offenders and to reclaim neighborhoods suffering from a high volume of shootings <br /> and other violent crimes. <br /> The team works closely with patrol division personnel and specialized investigations units within the <br /> department, outside law enforcement agencies as well as community groups such as Coalition of <br /> Neighborhood Organizations (CONO) and several faith-based organizations providing services in the <br /> community. The ACT works on duty as time allows but most work is on overtime. The Department <br /> needed to respond to the increase in violent crime in a timely manner but does not have the money to <br /> sustain its efforts without additional funds provided by Project Safe Neighborhoods. Without the <br /> proper funding for overtime salaries, the Anti-Crime Team will simply not be available to perform their <br /> mission. The Decatur Police Department is requesting$70,759 to pay overtime (approximately$42.00 <br /> an hour) to 22 ACT team members. This would allow each team member to work an average of 6.38 <br /> hours of overtime a month. <br /> Please detail the essential components of the proposed program. <br /> Duties and responsibilities of the Anti-Crime Team will be to provide arrest teams for violent <br /> offenders, conduct gang suppression activities,perform follow up investigations on violent offenses <br /> and to locate victims and witnesses in major case investigations or other violent crime incidents, �, <br /> conduct covert surveillance on habitual violent offenders or in high crime neighborhoods. Team <br /> members will work closely with the established neighborhood groups to provide a sense of teamwark � <br /> within the community. Tactics and responsibilities will evolve as needed to best address the overall <br /> mission; to reduce violent crime in the City. <br /> Team members will work closely with Decatur Police Department Detectives, including the Street <br /> Crimes Unit. The Gang Specialist and two Street Crime Detectives will assist the team in their <br /> targeting efforts of habitual violent offenders and drug dealers in the project neighborhoods. The <br /> Crime Analysis Unit and Gang Specialist will play major roles in providing the needed information for <br /> the proper allocation of resources. The ACT will work in conjunction with the United States <br /> Attorneys Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Marshal's Service, the Macon <br /> County States Attorneys Office, and others. <br /> The team consists of the following personnel; one commander, three patrol sergeants, two first shift <br /> patrol officers, six second shift patrol officers, five third shift patrol officers, one gang detective, two <br /> street crime detectives, one general detective, one juvenile detective and one high school resource <br /> detective. <br /> 1 <br />