The Tulsa Police Department has received a $400,000 grant to tackle violent crime by addressing emerging criminal trends during the next 12 months.
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has partnered with the department in supplying funds to combat violent crime during the past four years without requiring a local match, according to a city of Tulsa news release issued Thursday.
Police Chief Chuck Jordan noted that the award comes during a time of tight budget restrictions. Jordan said the grant will allow:
- The Organized Gang Unit to continue applying intelligence-based policing methodology to target certified gang members and their operations.
- The Fugitive Warrants Unit to continue conducting surveillance and to pursue and apprehend suspects wanted for violent crimes.
- Detectives and uniformed officers to continue conducting compliance checks for sex offenders and violent offenders registrants to assure compliance.
- The Vice Unit to continue expanded operations for investigations of human trafficking and prostitution.
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“Their help has played a major role in some of the most significant operations to reduce criminal activities in these areas over the last few years,” Jordan said of the Attorney General’s Office.
Mayor Dewey Bartlett said in a statement that the Police Department’s effective and efficient use of the grant money in past years led to the 2016 award.
“Our police force demonstrates repeatedly that they are the best in the state at strategic problem solving, using the limited resources they have to detain criminals expeditiously and fastidiously work with the legal system to obtain justice,” Bartlett said.
The Safe Oklahoma Grant to the Tulsa Police Department was one of several the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office announced June 16.
Other recipients of the 2016 grants, totaling $1,466,539.23, are the Blanchard, Broken Arrow, Durant, Midwest City, Minco, Oklahoma City and Shawnee police departments and the Sequoyah County, Stephens County and Tulsa County sheriff’s offices.
The Attorney General’s Safe Oklahoma Grant program, established in 2012, is funded through the state Legislature.
