Junction City's COPPS Police Organization
The United States Justice Department using Junction City’s COPPS police organization strategies with the influence of three different grants and six-member task force for an innovative case study. The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant awarded $1,000,000 for salaries, new equipment, along with USDA's Community Facilities Grant in combination with Rural Responders Grant awarded, $ 500,000 (United States Department of Justice, 2012). This money works toward restoring buildings for central command, dispatcher/call center, and computerized crime fighting equipment. The grants help to bring this outdated police department into the future of community-orientated police and community involvement.
Junction City Proposal
The Junction City Mayor and Council hired a new police chief to work with the task force to incorporate the new change of using the COPP organization strategies (Peak, 2010). This innovative mayor, commissioner, along with the police chief applied and received three different grants $1.5 million dollars (United States Department of Justice, 2012). This proposal discusses the reorganization of the Junction City Police Department to ensure the future safety of community and citizens. The grants pay the increased salaries of police officers, new dispatch call center, and computerized equipment for every police officer. These grants provide the research and information for this study for the criminal justice department. The grants spent for restoring the Junction City police department, computerized central command, crime lab, dispatch/call center, police equipment, and salaries for nine months through the tourist season. The climate within the Junction City police department defines the behavior factors depend on the social interaction of the police and the people within complex areas of the communities.