Field-Initiated

Review of Onslow County Sheriff's Office Employee Training Curriculum.
The Onslow County Sheriffs Office (OCSO) in Jacksonville, NC requested a review of their PREA employee training curriculium materials. The TA was assigned to The Moss Group, Inc. (TMG) to review the agency's training materials and provide feedback on how this material aligns with the PREA training standards

The NRTAC team provided four onsite training sessions on Firearms Identification and Crime Gun Intelligence Exploitation for the Louisville (KY) Police Department, with subject matter expert Mark Kraft delivering the content. The training informed attendees about how to identify a firearm for accurate trace results and how crime gun intelligence can be used to investigate and prosecute NIBIN-related cases.

Our contact in MD reached out asking for an updated copy of the SCIP subaward summary so she could have examples of what other states are funding with their SCIP dollars. They also asked us which of the states have ERPOs, so we provided that information.

NRTAC member Alan Hughes and NRTAC subject matter expert Kevin Armbruster visited the Wichita, Kansas, CGIC. There, they engaged with Wichita Police Department (WPD) Chief Joseph Sullivan and his CGIC executive leadership team and advocated for the sustainability of the Wichita CGIC program beyond the BJA local-CGIC grant period of performance set to end in Fiscal Year 2024.

The NRTAC team provided an onsite training session on evidence-based prosecution of gun crime for prosecutors and prosecution investigators throughout Connecticut. Subject matter experts Kristine Hamann, Carla Taylor, Sophia Roach, and Robert Troyer delivered the content. The training informed attendees how to effectively prosecute gun crime cases by leveraging crime gun intelligence, victim and witness collaboration, and supplemental types of evidence in the courtroom.

We met with Oregon's SAA office to discuss CPTED; we also discussed other priority areas for SCIP funding in hopes that they will be able to resubmit their plan to BJA soon. OR also asked about CVI related subawards in other states, so we sent OR a host of information about subawards that were specifically related to CVI.

We checked in with RI and offered to meet with them. We also shared examples of 4 program plans from other states as well as shared the SCIP subaward summary, clarified the guidelines related to the "under $10K" locations, and shared the RI statewide stakeholder criminal justice survey analysis that NCJA conducted earlier in the year. We also presented to the RI SCIP Advisory Board and answered questions about types of programming that would likely be allowable under SCIP.

Presented to the Alabama Byrne SCIP sub recipients on Byrne SCIP allowable uses of funding and grant administration.

Presented to the Rhode Island Byrne SCIP Advisory Board on Byrne SCIP allowable uses of funding and grant administration.

NCJA shared examples of strong program plans from two states and again offered to meet with their Advisory Board once it is formed. It is our hope that the examples we've provided will provide the structure and content examples that PR can benefit from to successfully meet the requirements for the Board.