Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council's Five in Five
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The Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council’s (CICC) Five in 5 is a collection of resources that may be of interest to law enforcement and homeland security partners working to improve the nation’s ability to develop and share criminal intelligence. The Five in 5 highlights promising practices, case studies, and success stories and identifies products, reports, training, and toolkits to build, implement, and enhance a criminal intelligence capability. You are encouraged to share this e-mail with your association members, colleagues, department/organization personnel, and others, as appropriate. Please contact cicc@iir.com to submit a success story or resource for consideration in the CICC’s Five in 5. To view the Five in 5 archive, visit: https://it.ojp.gov/FiveIn5.
Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program
BJA Solicitation
In 2017, more than 70,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. That’s 192 people each day—more than the number of lives lost in car accidents or gun-related homicides. An overwhelming majority of these overdose deaths involved an opioid, including prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic drugs like fentanyl.
~Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Katharine Sullivan, remarks from The Integral Role of PDMPs and Comprehensive Data in Combating the Opioid Epidemic: National Meeting for Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and COAP Grantees – Full Remarks
The Bureau of Justice Assistance recently announced the release of the solicitation for applications for the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Program (COAP): Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic. These demonstration projects are designed to build local capacity, foster cross-sector collaboration, and support innovation. Under this solicitation, up to eight rural communities or regions will be selected for grant awards up to $750,000, each for a 24-month period. Applications are due by July 26.
What’s New In Blue
Resource
What’s New in Blue, offered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, is a series of short videos intended to keep viewers informed about innovative developments and critical issues in law enforcement. This episode features Lieutenant Adrian Diaz, who is a key member in implementing the Seattle, Washington, Police Department’s Micro Community Policing Plans (MCPP). MCPPs are designed to address the distinctive needs of each community. The plans take a three-pronged approach that brings community engagement, crime data, and police services together to get direct feedback on perceptions of crime and public safety. Lieutenant Diaz speaks about the development of the MCPP program, discusses outcomes of the project, and provides tips for other departments looking to develop a similar program.
Improved TRIPwire
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
TRIPwire.dhs.gov has been improved with an easier and more intuitive user interface. TRIPwire contains tools for bombing prevention planning and outreach as well as an extensive library of videos and documents for researching threats nationwide. Visit the new TRIPwire website to learn more about the improvements.
Law Enforcement Officer Safety and Wellness
A Key BJA Priority
The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) understands the importance of supporting law enforcement safety and wellness by providing officers with the necessary tools and resources needed to help them better address the emotional, mental, and tactical aspects of police work. To address law enforcement safety and wellness through a multifaceted, coordinated approach, BJA and its partners support two key comprehensive and holistic initiatives—the National Officer Safety Initiatives and the Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement Officers and Ensuring Officer Resilience and Survivability Initiative. This article highlights these initiatives and offers key resources.
Webinar: Responding to Gangs in Schools
Creating a Collaborative Process Between Schools and Law Enforcement
The National Gang Center’s Gangs in Schools guide discusses strategies around gang activity identification and assessment; planning and implementing a collaborative approach; and prevention, intervention, and suppression.
This no-cost webinar highlights the importance of responding to gangs within a school setting through a collaborative approach. With input from practitioners, this webinar specifically focuses on the process and challenges of developing a collaboration between law enforcement and school administration, as well as ways to foster and sustain a collaboration once it has been established.
Date: August 1, 2019
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET
The mission of the CICC is to advocate for and support state, local, and tribal law enforcement and homeland security agencies and personnel in their efforts to develop and share criminal intelligence for the promotion of public safety and the security of our nation.
This publication is funded in whole or in part through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this publication (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided).