Chippewa Cree awarded law enforcement grant

Havre Daily News staff

  The Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is one of two Montana tribal nations about to get a significant boost in law enforcement funding.

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines announced Monday that U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. awarded $1,094,800 ther the Chippewa Cree and to the Crow Tribe to enhance law enforcement practices and sustain crime prevention and intervention efforts.

The Chippewa Cree received $480,223 and the Crow Tribe $505,125.

“This funding will provide additional resources to help tribes' public safety needs,” Daines said in a press release.

The funding will be used in nine purpose areas including public safety and community policing, justice systems planning, alcohol and substance abuse, corrections and correctional alternatives, violence against women, juvenile justice and tribal youth programs the release said.

In Fiscal Year 2010 The Department of Justice launched the Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation, which encompassed most of the Department's available tribal government-specific grant programs. The tribes are using these funds to enhance law enforcement, bolster justice systems, prevent and control delinquency and strengthen the juvenile justice system, serve sexual assault and elder victims and support other efforts to combat crime, the release said.