(1) The Department of State Police may administer a grant program for statewide community policing demonstration projects. The department shall award grants on the basis of appropriateness and effectiveness and shall consider geographic and demographic factors in making the awards.
(2) To be eligible for a grant, a community must:
(a) Demonstrate interaction between its citizens and the police; and
(b) Have initiated planning for innovative police strategies that are problem oriented, proactive and community based.
(3) A community must submit to the department a proposal that provides the details of the community policing project the community intends to implement. The project shall contain the following elements:
(a) Community involvement, including involving neighborhood associations, business groups, churches and other civic organizations in establishing priorities for anticrime efforts involving the police and other community agencies and providing recognition of and police support to citizen-based anticrime efforts including, but not limited to, block watches, task forces and alternative programs;
(b) Problem-solving orientation;
(c) Community-based deployment strategies that fit the community’s problems, financial limitations and priorities, as jointly determined by the citizens of the community, the elected officials and the police; and
(d) Increased accountability of the police to the citizens. [Formerly 184.413]
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