Item 19 - FY 2022 Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women Grant Funds

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Total:210,000.00$ Travel funds will be available to attend the OVW-mandated technical trainings in accordance with the program guidelines. Remaining funds will be made available to attend any other available and relevant OVW-approved trainings which would enhance or support the work identified in this project. The sites of the training are unknown at this time. Costs are based on average airfare and M&IE expenses and an average lodging rate of major metropolitan areas for FY2022 The positions within the Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) listed below will staff the DV Response Car and a DV Investigation Car on an overtime basis, depending upon their availability and the situation. All SAPD personnel involved in the proposed OVW-ICJR project have received special training on domestic violence and related issues. Detective Corporal: Special Crimes Section Detective Corporal is a sworn Peace Officer assigned responsible for supervising the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Unit. The Detective Corporal is responsible for report review, scheduling, making supervisory decisions as well as investigating cases. This is a supervising detective position, and the detective corporal has a caseload of sexual assault and domestic violence cases. The Detective Corporal also performs the same investigative tasks as the Domestic Violence Detective in the unit. The Detective Corporal will also compile data to complete monthly reporting required by the grant. The Detective Corporal will also be the lead contact for scheduling SAPD briefings and budget approval of overtime. The Detective Corporal will be the primary liaison with Human Options on the proposed project. Detective: Detectives are sworn Peace Officers assigned cases and are tasked with investigating the case. The investigations include: Doing background checks on the suspect, researching the background of the victim and suspect’s domestic violence history, obtaining and reviewing prior domestic violence reports, possibly obtaining outside police agency reports, interviewing victims, witnesses and suspects, obtaining medical records from hospitals, doing follow-up photos of victims if necessary, obtaining and reviewing 911 calls, obtaining text messages, phone messages and e-mails, obtaining camera footage at locations where the incident occurred, following up by responding to schools to interview children, submitting cases to the District Attorney’s Office for possible filing of charges, obtaining arrest warrants, serving arrest warrants, following up by arresting suspects on cases who were not located at the time the report was taken, testifying in court on cases, doing follow-up investigation requested by the District Attorney on patrol arrests, and other investigative duties required to support the case. The Detective is responsible for closing the casefile and updating the case in the Santa Ana Police Department TriTech System. The Detective maintains their own monthly logs on all their assigned cases. The Detective completes their monthly Statistics at the end of each month and they are submitted to the section Commander.