APPENDIX A TITLES AND FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR PROJECTS INCLUDED IN THIS GRANT REQUEST PROJECT LAB: DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL FORENSIC SCIENCES LABORATORY STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Public safety in any community depends, to a large degree, upon the efficiency and effectiveness of its law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. In recent years the courts have placed heavy emphasis on the role of physical evidence in the solution of crime and the establishment of the guilt or innocence of suspects. While local police agencies have had access to some laboratory facilities in the past (the FBI Laboratory, the laboratories of local health departments for some narcotics cases), these facilities have not expanded to meet the evercreasing demands for service. A recent study by the Georgetown Institute for Criminal Law and Procedures indicates that area police agencies would have to increase their laboratory usage by a factor of 8 to reach even the usage level of the Baltimore Police Department. Education and training of police officers in the optimum use of physical evidence were also identified as in need of improvement by the Georgetown study. On the average, in the Washington metropolitan area, only three percent of the total hours available in basic police training courses are devoted to physical evidence utilization. While 40 percent of all area police officers participate in outside educational offerings, only 2 of 1 percent of them receive any instruction related to the use of physical evidence. It is clear that additional forensic sciences laboratory facilities must be made available to the police and prosecutors of metropolitan Washington and that training courses regarding the use of physical evidence must be developed and provided to local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES The purpose of this project is to develop a regional forensic sciences laboratory facility which can serve all area law enforcement units concerned with physical evidence. A second purpose is to develop a staff of professional personnel who can train local law enforcement officials in the use of physical evidence and laboratory techniques. PROPOSED PROGRAM During the first year of operation, three laboratory services would be initiated and made available to area law enforcement agencies: A Regional Firearms and Toolmarks Evidence File and Examination Capability. A Regional Documents Examination Capability A Narcotics Examination Capability. In addition, selected local law enforcement officers would be given intensive instruction in these three fields. Each officer selected would be given 5 to 7 weeks of university level course work and then assigned to the Regional Laboratory for practical experience. These officers will be used in future years to instruct in the uses of physical evidence in area training academies. After the first year of operation, the Laboratory will continue to provide the firearms, toolmarkings, documents and narcotics services. In addition, it will gradually identify new problem areas and gradually expand both services and training capabilities. Likely future service and training areas include the following: Neutron Activation Analysis. Microscopy. Fingerprints. Small Particle Analysis (fire and powder residues, dust). APPENDIX C PROJECT PSIAC: INITIATION OF PHYSICAL SECURITY INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTER STATEMENT OF PROBLEM In its task force report on science and technology, the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice pointed out that law enforcement agencies have not enjoyed the benefits of the great scientific advancements of the 20th century to the same extent as other segments of our society. The Commission indicated that there was a great need to bring current scientific knowledge and skills to bear on law enforcement problems. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES In early 1968, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Battelle Memorial Institute jointly participated in a pilot project to determine the feasibility of developing a Physical Security Information Analysis Center. The purpose of this center was to attempt to provide a means by which current social and physical science information could quickly be mobilized to solve local law enforcement problems. During the pilot project, information from Battelle's existing military information centers was used as the basis for answers to questions asked by key Washington area law enforcement officers. Selected members of Battelle's 1,400 man professional staff in Columbus, Ohio, provided an analytical capability. The Council of Governments' public safety staff provided the interface between available technology on the one hand and utilization of this information to solve actual local law enforcement problems on the other. In all, twenty inquiries were made to the Physical Security Information Analysis Center by Washington area police officials. As responses were based on information already available from Battelle's military data base, inquiries were generally restricted to fields related to overseas defense research. The following are some examples of questions asked: What electronic devices are available which have the capability to transmit reports from the field immediately to police headquarters? Is there a light weight body armor available for use in police work and, if so, what are the results of tests involving this armor? Compare chemical mace with the night stick as a police control weapon. What is the best way to control rumors in metropolitan areas during major civil disturbances? At least one PSIAC reply had a marked effect on the policy of an area police department (the department decided not to stock chemical mace). Another reply (one on the feasibility of developing a “fingerprint" file for firearm projectiles) had an effect on gun control legislation in the District of Columbia. All PSIAC responses were received by the office making the inquiry within two weeks after the question was posed; one of the quickest responses was made within 36 hours. The object of this project is to make the PSIAC capability available to area police agencies on an on-going basis. PROPOSED PROJECT The Council of Governments proposes to contract with the Battelle Memorial Institute for the provision of PSIAC services to the Washington metropolitan area. The service to be offered will be patterned after the service provided by the Institute during the pilot project described above. However, the information base and, thus, the types of allowable questions will be greatly expanded. As in the pilot project, technical inquiries from local police agencies will be answered by the Center. Response quality will be comparable to the pilot project responses. It is anticipated that a minimum of 25 will be handled during each year of operation. Responses will be geared both toward the management level and the functional level, i.e., the difference between law enforcement planning staffs and the operational level of law enforcement will be taken into account in the responses. Where practicable, every attempt will be made to provide person to person technical advisory services. This may be accomplished either via telephone conversations or visits by selected Battelle staff members to local police agencies. All PSIAC replies to technical responses will be made available to all members of the Council's Regional Police Chiefs' Committee. RESOURCES The total yearly cost of this project is $50,000. APPENDIX D PROPOSED BUDGET FOR YEAR ONE OF THE COUNCIL'S LAW ENFORCEMENT, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAM A. Personal Services: 1. Public safety staff (see appendix E) 3. Deputy Executive Director (10%). Personal services subtotal___. B. Employee fringe benefits: (12% of salaries)_ C. Overhead (18% of salaries) (rent, telephone, etc.). D. Other expenses: 1. Office furniture_. 2. Travel 3. Publications and reproduction_. 4. Training 5. Special equipment (LE-6) 6. Laboratory equipment-- Other expenses subtotal___. E. Contractual services: $366, 545 3,000 2,000 10,000 381, 545 43,982 65, 968 17,500 10,000 9,000 27,500 5,000 25,000 94,000 1. CP-4, security code guidelines. 2. LE-3, define police functions- 3. Physical Security Information Analysis Center_. Contractual services subtotal___ Grand total____. 35, 791 30,000 50,000 115, 791 701, 286 |