20A - APPR ADJ HOMELAND SEC GRANT

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FY 200! ttOMELAND SFfil1RlTY GRANT PROGRAM -DECEMBER 2, 2005 Consumable costs, such as fuel expenses, are not allowed except as part of the standard National Guard deployment package. 2. Overtime costs are allowable for personnel to participate in information, investigative, and intelligence sharing activities specifically related to homeland security. This includes activities such as anti-terrorism task forces, Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF), Area Maritime Security Committees (as required by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002), and Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) groups. Grant funds may be used towards the hiring of new staff and/or contractors to serve as intelligence analysts to support information intelligence fusion capabilities. In order to be hired as an Intelligence Analyst, staff and/or contractor personnel must have successfully completed training to ensure baseline proficiency in intelligence analysis and production. Furthermore, costs associated with hiring new intelligence analysts are allowable only for the period of performance of the FY 2006 UASI and LETPP programs. Upon close-out of the FY 2006 grants, States and Urban Areas shall be responsible for supporting the sustainment costs for those intelligence analysts. The International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts' (IALEIA) Educational Standard # 7 (page 14 of the IALEIA Analytic Standards booklet) provides standards on the categories of training needed for intelligence analysts. These include subject-matter expertise, analytic methodologies, customer-service ethics, information handling and processing skills, critical thinking skills, computer literacy, and objectivity and intellectual honesty. Successful completion the following courses satisfies the intelligence analyst training requirement: • Intelligence Analyst Training Program (FLETC). • Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training (International Association of Law Enforcements Intelligence Analysis). Additional courses are being identified and will be shared as soon as possible. A certificate of completion of such training must be on jtle with the SAA and should be made available to Preparedness Officers upon request upon the hiring of personnel. control support at the border and at border patrol traffic checkpoints; and by enhancing their participation in the Integrated Border Enforcement Teams. This policy does not result in a change or extension of Federal authority to State, Tribal, or local law enforcement agencies to enforce Federal immigration taws. If Federal immigration violations are encountered, consistent with current practices, State, local, and Tribal agencies may refer those violations to CBP authorities for appropriate action. No funds may be obligated or drawn down in support of these activities without HQ-CBP approval of operational plans and without submission to and approval by G&T of budget detail worksheets. State, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies shall not use this funding to supplant routine patrol and law enforcement operations or activities in order to perform other activitics not directly related to providing an enhanced law enforcement presence. PREPAREDNESS DIR£C"I'ORATE'S OFFICE OF GRANTS AND TRAINING 83 20A-67