Law Enforcement and Traffic Safety
These funds are used to focus enforcement efforts on the state’s Impaired Driving “Hot Spots.” NHTSA 405(d) funds are used to support overtime efforts to conduct checkpoints, line patrols and saturation patrols in areas that data indicates over representation of impaired driving crashes occur. Impaired driving occurs when someone’s ability to safety operate a motor […]
The Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) funding is utilized by state and local agencies to conduct an array of traffic enforcement efforts. Supported by NHTSA Section 402 funding, officers conduct speed, occupant protection and impaired driving details. These agencies receive awards to provide traffic enforcement efforts that are in addition to the regularly scheduled patrols […]
The four Community Traffic Safety Program offices are located throughout the state and support the Division’s Highway Traffic Safety programming. The staff of these offices work to engage with local law enforcement agencies in their respective regions to implement traffic enforcement efforts in these areas as well as education and awareness related to traffic […]
Overview The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Title II Formula Grants Program provides funding to support state and local efforts to plan, establish, operate, coordinate, and evaluate policies and projects, directly or through grants and contracts with public and private agencies, for the development of more effective education, training, research, prevention, diversion, […]
Overview The Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP), created by the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998 is a unique U.S. Department of Justice initiative designed to provide a critical resource to state and local law enforcement. Federal website (part of the Office of Justice Programs site.)
Overview Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) is designed to create and foster safer neighborhoods through a sustained reduction in violent crime, including, but not limited to, addressing criminal gangs and the felonious possession and use of firearms. These grants are administered by ADECA at the discretion of the United States Attorney’s offices of Alabama’s Northern, Middle, […]
Overview The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) for State Prisoners Program assists states, local, and tribal governments in the development and implementation of substance abuse treatment programs in state, local, and tribal correctional and detention facilities. Funds are also available to create and maintain community reintegration services for offenders after they are released from incarceration. […]
Overview The Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program awards grants to states and units of local government to help improve forensic science and medical examiner/coroner services, including services provided by laboratories operated by states and units of local government.
Overview The Law Enforcement area of the division administers grants to help police officers, sheriff’s deputies, and state troopers better serve and protect Alabama residents. It also serves to provide funding for improving forensic science services and prevention/treatment initiatives for inmates and troubled youth. Some grant funding helps law enforcement agencies obtain new or updated […]
Overview The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program (Byrne JAG) is the leading source of federal justice funding to state and local jurisdictions. The program provides states, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of program areas including law enforcement, prosecution, indigent defense, courts, crime prevention and education, corrections […]
