Grant Awarded For Police-Corrections Resource Center
The George J. Beto Criminal Justice Center at Sam Houston
State University has received word that it has been awarded
a quarter of a million dollar grant from the U. S. Department
of Justice to create the National Resource Center for Police-Corrections
Partnerships.
Dan Richard Beto, executive director of the Correctional Management
Institute of Texas, and David Webb, assistant director of
the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas, will administer
the grant.
"The primary goal of this project is to deliver training
and technical assistance in developing partnership frameworks
for law enforcement and community corrections agencies in
at least five regional locations in the United States,"
said Webb. "It is our hope that more law enforcement
and probation and parole agencies will see the benefit of
working partnerships as a means of reducing crime, increasing
public confidence in the criminal justice system, and promoting
public safety by increasing offender accountability in the
community."
"Considerable expertise in the development of multi-agency
partnerships in Texas has been gained in the past four years
through Project Spotlight, an innovative program funded by
the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division," commented
Beto. "The newly created National Resource Center for
Police-Corrections Partnerships will take the good practices
from the lessons learned in Texas together with the research
base in law enforcement and community corrections cooperation
to a national audience of practitioners."
"We are extremely pleased to have received this grant
from the Justice Department," said Richard H. Ward, dean
and director of the Criminal Justice Center. "As the
threat to public safety intensifies due to heightened terrorist
activities, it is vitally important that criminal justice
and law enforcement agencies work together more effectively."
"The fact that Dan Beto and David Webb are managing this
project, who together have close to 70 years of operational
and administrative experience in law enforcement and corrections,
and who have collaborated on several other initiatives, ensures
its success," Ward added.
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Media Contact: Julia
May
November 4, 2003
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