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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLetterSOUTH FLORIDA HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREA 11200 N.W. 206 Street, Suite 304. • Miami, Florida 33172 • Tel: (305) 715-7892 Fax: (305) 715-7689 April 11, 2006 Chief John F. Timoney City of Miami Police Department 400 N.W. 2nd Avenue Miami, Florida 33128 Dear Chief Timoney: We are pleased to inform you that an award for your Police Department has been approved in the amount of $45,000. This award is from the South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Crime and Drug Demand Reduction Program to support your efforts at the site in the City of Miami that you proposed be the focus of a special initiative. For the year 2005, the program had an overall increase on Part 1 Crime of 22%. This increase demonstrates the need to continue our crime fighting effort. The Crime and Drug Demand Reduction Program is an effort to eliminate or significantly reduce drug trafficking and related crime; to reduce or eliminate factors leading to drug abuse; and to nurture and develop indigenous leadership to assist residents in attaining self sufficiency in five "at risk" communities spanning South Florida's tri-county area. The strategy is to continue the attack on crime through intensive enforcement resulting in arrests and convictions in federal and state courts and the seizure of contraband and assets of drug traffickers, drug dealers, career criminals, and violent crime offenders active in the selected communities. For this year's award, only those statistics captured while working under the HIDTA funding will be submitted. This will help us establish a more effective way in which to evaluate how the HIDTA funding is being utilized and what are the exact results of this effort. Specific attention will also be placed on truancy reduction. Enforcement will be reduced to a maintenance level at a given time, while residents and leaders are empowered to sustain the reduced crime level, recovery, and growth of the community. This will be accomplished through leadership skill development for adult and youth members, the creation or enhancement of community -based coalitions, employment preparation, grantsmanship training, and youth tutoring and mentoring. Chief John F. Timoney City of Miami Police Department Page 2 of 3 Your community's HIDTA award is in two parts. Part One is the Law Enforcement approach, in which police officers work with community leaders and representatives to develop an enforcement plan to remove from the community drug traffickers and dealers as well as violent drug involved offenders and career criminals. A total of $39,000 is provided for this Part One approach. These funds are to be used for overtime hours dedicated solely to the target site for the twelve-month period of February 1st, 2006 ending on January 31st, 2007. No employee fringe benefits will be paid by HIDTA. Your city will be responsible for fringe benefits. We will continue to use the same tactical and operational approach to guide us for this effort. Keep in mind that we are united with our communities in an effort to eradicate crime and drugs. Part Two of this award is the continuing Community Policing Crime Reduction approach. The goal of this component is to continue the elimination or significant reduction of drug trafficking and related crime through the empowerment of the targeted communities' adults and youth members. It has been proven nationwide that community policing has caused a tremendous positive interaction between law enforcement and the community, and as a result, major crime battles have successfully been fought. The award for this part of the program is $6,000 for the twelve-month period of February 1st, 2006 through January 31st, 2007. These funds are to contribute towards your police department's expenses in the following areas: Community Policing Officer(s) $6,000 (Overtime salary— No fringe benefits) The above funding of $6,000 will also be used as overtime. This can only pay for the Officer's overtime salary without fringe benefits. The entire award of $45,000 can be applied to Officer's overtime, but with no fringe benefits. Your organization will be reimbursed on a monthly basis, after a complete report of the previous month's expenses is submitted to the Crime and Drug Demand Reduction Program Manager, Captain Joe R. Mendez, at the above address. By accepting this award, your organization agrees to allocate the funds as outlined above, and to assist the C.D.D.R.P. in any activity organized by HIDTA such as workshops, anti -drug & anti - crime presentations, and mentoring and tutoring of the youth. A Full-time county/city employee must supervise any person hired by your county/city that is paid from these awarded funds. Should this joint venture with South Florida HIDTA identify areas where funding allocations could be modified to more effectively accomplish the program's goals, this may be negotiated on a case -by -case basis. If you accept, please indicate by signing on the line below and return this original document to Captain Mendez. A monthly statistical report detailing the activities enumerated in this document should be forwarded to Capt. Joe R. Mendez, no later than the 5th day of every month. Chief John F. Timoney City of Miami Police Department Page 3 of 3 If you have any questions pertaining to the award, please feel free to contact Captain Joe R. Mendez, Program Manager, C.D.D.R.P., at (305) 715-7890 or Ms. Genii Cockshutt, Fiscal Officer, South Florida HIDTA, at (954) 430-4903. The overall HIDTA program is results oriented; therefore the Crime and Drug Demand Reduction Program's staff and I look forward to forging an alliance with you, your staff and the people and programs of your community. Together we can make a real and life -changing impact on people in your targeted site who are challenged by drugs, crime, economic, social, and environmental conditions that must be overcome. Sincerely, • ir�l �W Timothy D. Wa P er Director, South Florida HIDTA Accepted: Date: