TO: Honorable Mayor & Members of the North Port Commission
FROM: A. Jerome Fletcher II, City Manager
TITLE: Approve the Bradenton Police Department Subrecipient Agreement for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program (HIDTA) to Bring Law Enforcement Together and Assist with Funding Involved with Narcotics Related Investigations.
Recommended Action
Approve the Bradenton Police Department Subrecipient Agreement for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program (HIDTA) to bring law enforcement together and assist with funding involved with narcotics related investigations.
Background Information
The Special Investigations Unit of the North Port Police Department proactively works on investigations related to illegal drugs. These cases are not just focused on drug dealers and drug users but homicide investigations in which people die from illegal drugs that are sold to the residents of North Port. Narcotics investigations are often time consuming and span across numerous jurisdictions. It is imperative for any successful investigations unit to have relationships with law enforcement agencies on all levels. One such program that brings law enforcement together as well as assists with funding is the HIDTA.
The HIDTA program, created by the U.S. Congress with the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, is a grant that provides assistance to Federal, State, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies operating in areas determined to be critical drug-trafficking regions of the United States. The program's mission is "to enhance and coordinate America's drug-control efforts among local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to eliminate or reduce drug trafficking and its harmful consequences in critical regions of the United States". At a local level the HIDTAs are directed and guided by Executive Boards composed of an equal number of Federal and non-Federal (state, local, and tribal) law enforcement leaders.
On July 20, 2020, the Executive Office awarded a...
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