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BUILDING SAFER COMMUNITIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE FEDERAL-LOCAL COLLABORATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 

HEARING 

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY 

UNITED STATES SENATE 

ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS 

FIRST SESSION 

JUNE 20, 2011 

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 

Serial No. J–112–27 

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary 

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY 

PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont, Chairman 

HERB KOHL, Wisconsin 

DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California 

CHUCK SCHUMER, New York 

DICK DURBIN, Illinois 

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island 

AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota 

AL FRANKEN, Minnesota 

CHRISTOPHER A. COONS, Delaware 

RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut 

CHUCK GRASSLEY, Iowa 

ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah 

JON KYL, Arizona 

JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama 

LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina 

JOHN CORNYN, Texas 

MICHAEL S. LEE, Utah 

TOM COBURN, Oklahoma 

BRUCE A. COHEN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director 

KOLAN DAVIS, Republican Chief Counsel and Staff Director 
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C O N T E N T S 

STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS 

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Coons, Hon. Christopher, a U.S. Senator from the State of Delaware ............... 1 

Leahy, Hon. Patrick J., a U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont .................... 4 

prepared statement .......................................................................................... 32 

WITNESSES 

Witness List ............................................................................................................. 31 

McFeely, Richard, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

Baltimore Division, Baltimore, Maryland .......................................................... 6 

prepared statement .......................................................................................... 34 

Coupe, Colonel Robert, Superintendent, Delaware State Police, Dover, Delaware ....................................................................................................................... 9 

prepared statement .......................................................................................... 42 

Hosfelt, Chief James, Dover Police Department, Dover, Delaware ..................... 12 

prepared statement .......................................................................................... 50 

Burch, James, Principal Deputy Director, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office 

of Justice Programs, Washington, DC ................................................................ 16 

prepared statement .......................................................................................... 54 

Fennell, Drewry, Executive Director Delaware Criminal Justice Council, Wilmington, Delaware ............................................................................................... 18 

prepared statement .......................................................................................... 63 

QUESTIONS 

Questions for James Burch submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley .................... 65 

Questions for Drewry Fennell submitted by Senator Chuck Grassley ............... 71 

ANSWERS 

Responses of James Burch to questions submitted by Senator Grassley ........... 74 

Responses of Drewry Fennell to questions submitted by Senator Grassley ....... 92 

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD 

‘‘Combating Crime with Restorative Justice,’’ by James Nolan and Mark 

Brunswick, delawareonline, December 7, 2010, article .................................... 98 

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BUILDING SAFER COMMUNITIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF EFFECTIVE FEDERAL-LOCAL 

COLLABORATION IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 

MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2011 

U.S. SENATE, 

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, 

Washington, DC. 

The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 11:08 a.m., Second 

Floor Auditorium, Carvel State Office Building, 820 N. French 

Street, Wilmington, Delaware, Christopher Coons presiding. 

Present: Senator Leahy. 

OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. CHRISTOPHER COONS, A U.S. 

SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF DELAWARE 

Senator COONS [Presiding]. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. 

It is an honor to convene this hearing of the Senate Committee on 

the Judiciary. 

I would like to thank Chairman Leahy for allowing me the privilege of doing so and for joining us here in Wilmington today. 

It is also an honor to welcome some of our distinguished guests 

this morning, the five who will testify before this field hearing and 

many others from the law enforcement community who have joined 

us here in the audience. 

I know I will miss a few. Hopefully, you will forgive me. But before coming up to begin the hearing, I had noted the presence of 

Delaware’s United States Attorney, Charles Oberly; our United 

States Marshal, Joe Papili; Senior Agent in Charge Jeff Garvin 

from the United States Secret Service; Chief Zerba from the city of 

Wilmington; Chief McGowan from the New Castle County Police; 

Chief Collins from Selbyville; Chief Tjaden from Delaware City; 

Sheriff Trinidad Navarro; and Kurt Reuther, representing Secretary Schiliro of the Delaware Department of Homeland Security. 

And I believe, also, Representative J.J. Johnson. 

Please, if you would, a round of applause for all the folks who 

have joined us here today to be a part of this field hearing. 

[Applause.] 

Senator COONS. I would also like to thank the distinguished 

panel of witnesses who have come here today to share with us their 

experience through the years of policing and justice assistance. 

They have much to teach us about how State and federal law enforcement can work together to make levels of law enforcement 

from federal to State to county to local much more effective and col-
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laborative as they work together and share intelligence and resources. 

I wanted to hold this hearing here in Delaware because our State 

has a strong history of working together with its federal partners 

to deliver safer communities for our citizens. We have a lot we can 

be proud of. 

When I mention the topic of federal assistance to local law enforcement, one of the first things people think of is the number of 

police hiring programs, first established in 1994 through legislation 

authored by then-Senator Joseph Biden, some known as COPS programs, but under many different names over many years. 

This legislation has provided state and local police with the funding they need to hire or retain officers who would otherwise have 

to be let go due to budget challenges. 

Also, since the passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law 

Enforcement Act of 1994, federal funding has created or helped 

save 486 police officer positions in our State of Delaware, certainly 

one of the signature federal-local partnerships. 

Less visible than federal funding assistance, but no less important, is the dramatic change by the FBI and State and local police 

and how they work with one another. 9/11 taught us that the old 

way of doing business, when each police department, law enforcement, or intelligence agency acted as an island unto itself was 

counterproductive and, indeed, in the context of 9/11, even dangerous. 

Building off the lessons of the attacks of 9/11, Delaware police 

and their federal partners have created a system of collaborative 

policing that builds on the strengths of each. State and local police 

remain at the front line of law enforcement, protecting our communities. Their greater numbers and familiarity with the communities 

in which we live and in which they serve make them ideally suited 

to carry out their critical public safety and policing missions. 

Being a small State, Delaware’s police face unique opportunities 

and challenges. Delaware’s size lends itself naturally to a closely 

knit, highly adaptable law enforcement community. At the same 

time, many of our police departments, particularly some of our municipal departments in the southern part of the State, are small 

and, as a result, can at times lack the resources needed to develop 

highly specialized techniques or units that might be needed to deal 

with organized crime or other relatively rare serious crimes that 

have serious consequences. 

In addition, Delaware, particularly in its northern region, may 

find itself a victim of crime that has its roots out of state in our 

region, where Delaware police lack the authority to investigate 

crimes or make arrests. 

Meeting these challenges requires real collaboration with our federal partners. The FBI is this Nation’s largest law enforcement 

agency, with a strong tradition of taking on the most serious criminal threats posed to this Nation. 

The FBI has national jurisdiction and is able to act across State 

lines. The FBI also has a core mission of national security and 

counterintelligence. 

Through its working relationships at the federal level with the 

NSA, CIA, and DHS, FBI has access to an unparalleled trove of in-
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formation regarding both terrorist threats and criminal threats. 

While the FBI’s resources are tremendous nationally, there are 

only 23 full-time FBI agents here in Delaware compared to the 

more than 2,000 full- and part-time State and local police officers 

confronting the nearly 96,000 serious crimes in Delaware each and 

every year. 

FBI’s Delaware profile is small in proportion to the total threat. 

This has led the FBI to rely on Delaware law enforcement as a 

force multiplier and Delaware law enforcement to rely on the FBI 

and other federal partners as key sources of information and resources in the fight against crime. 

In the context of national security, FBI leverages local authorities by sharing classified threat intelligence with local police chiefs 

through monthly policymaker briefings, the Delaware Information 

and Analysis Center, or DIAC, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force. 

By sharing this information, the FBI is able to gain thousands 

of eyes on the street and the front lines of homeland security. As 

we saw in New York following the Times Square bombing attempt 

just last year, State and federal law enforcement have significantly 

improved the flow of information between them in both directions. 

Intelligence-led policing, similarly, benefits our National security 

and relies on effective communication and collaboration between 

Federal, State, and local law enforcement and our National security agencies. 

With intelligence-led policing, law enforcement agencies use 

crime data and computer modeling to predict crime and make better use of their available resources. 

The data and reports that intelligence-led policing creates have 

the potential to be of enormous value to the counterterrorism mission as well, but only if that data can make its way from State and 

local police departments to the federal national security agencies. 

So overall, the goal of this hearing is to examine how well federal 

and local collaboration, including both information-sharing and 

funding support, is working using Delaware as a model. We will examine Delaware’s fusion center, which serves as the information 

and analysis nerve center, for information at every level that affects Delaware’s public safety. 

We will also examine the use of joint task forces which our local 

police and federal partners have established to bring a merged 

operational focus to counterterrorism, as well as to keeping our 

streets safe from gangs, drugs and guns. 

We will also look at formal information-sharing arrangements. 

While Delaware’s small size and the much-vaunted Delaware way 

of doing business have helped allow Delaware to innovate in these 

informal partnering arrangements, they can also serve, I believe, 

as models for States of any sizes. 

I am delighted to be joined here today by our Committee’s Chairman, Senator Leahy of Vermont, and by our distinguished panel of 

witnesses. 

Chairman Leahy, himself four times elected to a prosecutorial 

position as State’s Attorney for Chittenden County in Vermont, is 

the only Democrat ever elected to the Senate from the State of 

Vermont, has served now 36 years, was the youngest elected Senator in Vermont history when elected at the age of 34, has made 
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landmark advances in protecting our entire Nation through his 

leadership on the Judiciary Committee, and he does all of us a 

great honor by joining us here today. 

Chairman Leahy. 

STATEMENT OF HON. PATRICK LEAHY, A U.S. SENATOR FROM 

THE STATE OF VERMONT 

Chairman LEAHY. Thank you very much, Senator Coons. 

I wanted to come here because, as you heard just from his opening statement, Senator Coons has such a great grasp of what the 

issues are in something like this. I rely on him a lot. He has 

chaired a number of significant hearings in the U.S. Senate and 

does it in a way that it makes a difference. 

I think his strong commitment to supporting state and local law 

enforcement comes across very, very well. And one of the reasons 

I had urged him—when he came to the Senate, I urged him to 

come on the Senate Judiciary Committee. I said, ‘‘We have areas 

we can work with State and local and federal law enforcement. For 

me, it is a passion, and you can be very helpful.’’ And he agreed 

and came there. 

So then the last time I was in this city, I was with another Senator from here, but he left to take a job with the executive branch 

and found a better way to travel than taking the train every day 

like he used to. 

[Laughter.] 

Chairman LEAHY. I found the train great coming up here today. 

But we are going to hear how our federal and State law enforcement work together to keep our streets safe. Interagency coordination and information-sharing, especially today, is more important 

than ever. We had the so-called Christmas Day bomber attempt to 

detonate an explosive on the flight in 2009, and our intelligence 

agencies knew his identity, but the information had not been 

passed out. So he was not on the watch list. 

Fortunately, it failed to detonate or all the people flying to Detroit that day would have died. And I agree with President Obama 

that that was a systemic failure. I was pleased to see the Administration work very quickly to fill those gaps. 

But we have to do this all the time to piece together the information we have. The local police, the State police, the federal authorities, there is a lot of information there and, as you all know, those 

of you who handle criminal cases, you know sometimes the case 

only gets solved when all those little pieces are put together. 

But I think that, also, continuing federal support for State and 

local law enforcement is extremely important. The Congress is focused on how to continue the economic recovery. One effective way 

to both protect our citizens and create jobs is to bolster federal resources for State and local law enforcement. 

When neighborhoods become safer, property values rise, local 

economies prosper. That has happened everywhere. Now, like 

Vermont, Delaware is a small State, where neighboring jurisdictions are close by and States are close by, and cooperation and 

interoperability are especially critical among State and federal 

partners. 
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My attention to information-sharing and law enforcement safety 

was shaped significantly by the Carl Draga incident in Vermont 

and New Hampshire. Right along the border of our two States, in 

August 1997, four people were killed, including two New Hampshire State police officers. Three other law enforcement officers 

were wounded, one grievously. 

This is indelibly in my mind. The Director of the FBI at that 

time, Louis Freeh, by coincidence, was staying at our home in 

Vermont. And it was interesting to watch how everybody came together, but we also saw how we had information-sharing deficiencies. We had radios that could not talk to each other. We had 

the lack of bullet-proof vests. 

So it made the work of these incredibly brave police officers that 

much more difficult. We acted very quickly, and Senator Judd 

Gregg, a senior Republican from New Hampshire, and I got together. We passed legislation to provide funding to State and local 

law enforcement to create communications interoperability. 

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado and I passed the 

Leahy-Campbell bill, which provided thousands and thousands of 

bullet-proof vests around this country ever since then. 

So I have never lost sight of how important this is. It is one of 

the best investments we can make in Congress, because crime dramatically affects communities across the country, bigger cities like 

Wilmington to smaller towns like those in Vermont and Delaware, 

my own town of 1,500 people. 

We have to do what we can to assist the States and communities. 

Senator Coons, one, I want to thank you again for doing this, but 

I also want to thank everybody who has come here on the panel. 

I suspect every one of you has a million other things you could be 

doing today. This is actually very helpful, because if we are going 

to pass legislation, it gives the two of us the chance to go to other 

Senators in both parties and say, ‘‘Here is what we heard.’’ 

So thank you. Thanks, Chris. 

[The prepared statement of Chairman Leahy appears as a submission for the record.] 

Senator COONS. Thank you, Chairman Leahy. 

As you can tell, someone with his role as both an authorizer and 

an appropriator in federal law enforcement-related activity and 

with his long experience and intense interest is a tremendous resource and ally for us as we try to learn from this panel of distinguished witnesses today and as we move forward. 

So, now, I would like to ask the witnesses to stand. Raise your 

right hand and repeat after me. 

[Witnesses sworn.] 

Senator COONS. Thank you. Let the record show the witnesses 

have taken the oath and been duly sworn. Please be seated. 

Now, we will proceed with witness introductions and testimony, 

beginning with Special Agent McFeely. 

Richard McFeely was appointed in August 2009 as special agent 

in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore division. Agent McFeely entered 

on duty as an FBI special agent in February 1990. 

Upon completion of training, he reported to the Buffalo division, 

where he primarily worked in violent crime and street gang matters. He served as a lead Buffalo division case agent, investigating 
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the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing in 1995, in part, because the perpetrator was western New York resident Timothy 

McVeigh. 

In 1997, he received the New York Bar Association’s Tribute to 

Valor Award for dismantling a violent street gang that terrorized 

the citizens of Buffalo. 

Special Agent McFeely received his first supervisory field assignment in 1999, supervising a drug squad at the Washington field office. Following the 2001 attack on the Pentagon, he was assigned 

the FBI’s on-scene commander, with responsibility for recovery of 

evidence and remains. 

Following that assignment, Mr. McFeely supervised a Washington field office counterterrorism squad, working extensively with 

State and local and federal agencies. He was instrumental in setting up a joint intelligence center in 2003 with the Fairfax County 

Police Department and other local agencies in an effort to increase 

the information sharing that is exactly our focus today. 

In 2005, he received the Director’s Award for his outstanding 

counterterrorism investigation for his efforts in supervising a multinational investigation into an assassination plot against a foreign 

Head of State. 

Mr. McFeely has strong Delaware roots as well, having earned 

his B.S. degree in criminal justice from the University of Delaware 

in 1985 and a J.D. from Delaware Law School in 1989. 

He is married, has three children, has resided in the Annapolis 

area for more than 13 years, and he honors us by his testimony 

today. 

Mr. McFeely, please proceed. 

STATEMENT OF RICHARD MCFEELY, SPECIAL AGENT IN 

CHARGE, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, BALTIMORE DIVISION, BALTIMORE, MD 

Mr. MCFEELY. Thank you, Senator. Good morning, Chairman 

Leahy, Senator Coons, distinguished guests. 

Senator Coons, I’ll start right off by saying that your opening 

statement was spot on. 

I appreciate the opportunity to be here today to discuss probably 

one of the single most important issues facing the FBI, and that 

is exactly how do we get the information pushed out to our State 

and local law enforcement partners that’s going to keep this country safe. 

As you look down the long road that the FBI has traveled since 

2001, I believe you will see certain milestones that have defined 

significant accomplishments in both our philosophy and our actual 

capabilities on information sharing. 

But I don’t want to paint the illusion that we have reached the 

end of the road. We are driving a vehicle that must not only be 

driven faster, but at the same time, stay between the guardrails as 

to what we are legally permissible to share. 

The FBI has formalized a strategy that provides a foundation to 

shape and implement numerous information-sharing initiatives 

with our many mission partners, federal, State, local, tribal, foreign 

governments, and private-sector stakeholders, while, at the same 

time, protecting privacy and civil liberties of our citizens. 
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Given the unprecedented threat against our homeland by terrorist groups, I want to highlight this area first, especially since 

there is no other area that I can think of that has galvanized and 

inspired law enforcement to come together and share everything 

that we have in order to keep our country safe. 

Since I oversee FBI field operations in Delaware and Maryland, 

I’m going to discuss specific initiatives relative to these two States. 

However, what I’m describing has been mirrored across the country. 

First and foremost, in order to be effective as one law enforcement community, our partners must be educated to the threat. To 

do this, they must have access to the same information that I see 

every day as part of my daily threat briefing. 

We accomplish this most effectively through the partnerships of 

the joint terrorism task forces, the JTTFs. Between my two States, 

I have over 50 federal, State and local police agencies assigned to 

our JTTF squads. In these task forces, individual agency emblems 

are left at the door. All members of the JTTF have access to the 

exact same information that FBI special agents have, up to the 

highest classified level, and cases are opened and assigned regardless of individual agency affiliation. 

In fact, one of my Maryland JTTF squads is actually run by a 

Maryland State Police sergeant. But having a cleared police officer 

have access to classified threat information without the ability to 

share that to his or her chief is not a good model for us to address 

the local threat and certainly not a good model for that officer to 

get promoted. 

Towards that end, I have offered secret clearances to all chiefs 

and sheriffs within Delaware and Maryland. Many have taken me 

up on this offer. These policymakers are then given a classified 

threat briefing at least once a month on what the global terrorism 

picture is. 

We discuss everything from the types of threats, who is making 

the threats, and what is our response to those threats, which often 

involves their police agencies. 

But I do believe that the real success story in Delaware and 

Maryland has been through the cooperative nature of the State-run 

fusion centers. While we have a long way to go nationally, I think 

that the models for these fusion centers in these two States are 

simply that, a model to be followed. 

Recognizing that no one knows a community better than local 

law enforcement, in both States we have devised a program where 

all suspicious reporting from the general public, such as tip lines, 

or from the cop on the street who’s making a road stop, all those 

leads are first sent to the fusion centers for database checks and 

initial vetting. 

While these leads are then entered into the FBI’s Guardian system at this juncture, in both States and in most cases the initial 

investigation is actually conducted by a State or local police officer 

or trooper assigned to what we call the Guardian Threat Squad. 

This model allows police officers and troopers who already know 

their communities to best assess whether the activity that’s being 

reported on needs further follow-up. 
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Through policymaker briefs to the chiefs and direct lead dissemination to the officers and troopers on the street, we have effectively 

sandwiched our police partners right in the middle of a top-down/ 

bottom-up sharing of information. And in this manner, as you 

pointed out in your opening statement, we have just forcefully multiplied the eyes and ears of the FBI by thousands of police officers 

in both States. 

I also want to briefly discuss virtual command center, or VCC. 

The VCC is an unclassified software application that’s run on the 

FBI’s Law Enforcement Online, or LEO. It’s used by the FBI to 

share important information during a time of crisis. 

It allows us to instantly share critical data to remote users that 

now don’t have to physically show up in order to get updated information. We can share data across a wide range of users, including 

first responders, emergency planners, and anyone in a crisis management coordinating role. 

Moving toward our broader information-sharing posture, I want 

to just briefly discuss the sharing of actual case data. We do this 

through the National Data Exchange, or N–DEx. N–DEx is a national criminal law enforcement information-sharing system available through LEO and other Web-based means to law enforcement 

and criminal justice agencies. 

It provides law enforcement agencies with a powerful investigative tool to search, link, analyze, and share criminal justice information on a national basis to a degree never before possible. 

N–DEx serves as a repository of information contributed by 

State, local, tribal, federal law enforcement agencies, including all 

of the DOJ entities, DEA, the U.S. Marshals Service, ATF. 

Data currently consists mostly of incident and arrest reports, but 

eventually it will include booking, incarceration, parole, probation, 

and other types of information. N–DEx allows any agency to contribute and share law enforcement information with any other 

agency that has access to the Internet. 

Currently, there are 8,000 registered users and a total of 101 

million records by 23 major local, State, regional and federal criminal justice agencies. Delaware is a signatory to the N–DEx. 

In conclusion, the days of the FBI seeking to close hold information are long gone. The bulk of our agent and analytical core have 

been hired since 2001. The only FBI that they know stresses the 

importance of pushing out information to those that need it. 

But while we have made great strides, we have a long way to go. 

There are still many disparate databases that don’t talk with each 

other. Information coming from our partners in the intelligence 

community often is restricted, which makes sharing difficult. These 

restrictions aren’t random. They are used and put in place to protect the sources and methods that were used to collect that information. 

Because the FBI wears the Nation’s dual hat as an intelligence 

and a law enforcement agency, we are often caught in the middle 

of how to effectively share in these situations. 

And, finally, we must constantly balance our need to share with 

who should know. As collectors of very sensitive information on our 

citizens, we must constantly recognize the importance of safeguarding this information; not just to protect the sources and meth-
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ods used to collect it, but equally important, to safeguard the very 

same civil liberties we are trying to protect. 

These are the guardrails that I mentioned above. We must all be 

safe drivers as we continue down this road. 

I thank you for the opportunity to come and speak to this Committee today. 

[The prepared testimony of Mr. McFeely appears as a submission 

for the record.] 

Senator COONS. Thank you very much, and thank you for that 

testimony. And we look forward to having the opportunity to ask 

questions of the full panel. 

Next, we will hear from Colonel Robert Coupe. Colonel Coupe 

was appointed by Delaware’s Governor as the current Superintendent of the Delaware State Police and, in that role, commands 

roughly 675 troopers and 270 civilian employees. 

Colonel Coupe began his career in 1985 as a patrol trooper. Before his appointment as superintendent, he was Commander of the 

Criminal Investigative Unit, which oversaw 13 special units comprised of 85 detectives. 

Colonel Coupe was a member of the Tactical Control Unit from 

1991 to 1995 and served in the DSP Honor Guard from 1988 to 

2008. In 2001, Colonel Coupe also assisted in creating the DSP 

pipes and drums unit and is still a bagpiper with this unit. 

Colonel Coupe has an associate’s degree in mechanical engineering and will complete his bachelor’s in criminal justice at Wilmington University in December of this year. 

Colonel Coupe is the youngest of 10 children, has been married 

to Pamela Angeline Coupe for 24 years, and they have two children, Jocelyn and Tyler. 

Colonel Coupe, please proceed. 

STATEMENT OF COLONEL ROBERT COUPE, 

SUPERINTENDENT, DELAWARE STATE POLICE, DOVER, DE 

Colonel COUPE. Thank you. Good morning, Chairman Leahy, 

Senator Coons. Thank you for this opportunity. 

Prior to the current increased emphasis on information and intelligence sharing following the events of 9/11, such formal coordination between federal, State and local law enforcement agencies in 

Delaware was limited, at best. 

While departments would occasionally share case data, there was 

not a formal practice and was more of dependent on friendships between individual investigators. Such information or intelligence 

was considered proprietary of whatever agency had collected it and 

it was not disseminated to neighboring jurisdictions on a regular 

or consistent basis. 

There were no shared intelligence data bases, and most intelligence collection records were kept in a file drawer. These practices were considered normal prior to the rise of intelligence-led policing, which has evolved post-9/11. 

Generally speaking, law enforcement agencies did not consistently have access to critical intelligence necessary to investigate 

criminal cases across jurisdictional lines or between the federal, 

State and local levels. 
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Currently, the flow of information between federal, State and 

local agencies has greatly improved with the establishment of formal interagency relationships between federal liaisons and fusion 

centers. 

For example, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, or JTTF, provides a formal structure for sharing of investigative details for 

criminal investigations or for threat streams under the umbrella of 

counterterrorism. 

State and local law enforcement officers are now provided with 

timely information from a variety of sources, including federal, 

State and local partner agencies, to facilitate both day-to-day operations and long-term investigations. 

Delaware Information and Analysis Center, or DIAC, is the State 

fusion center for Delaware, utilizing sworn officers, intelligence analysts, and liaisons from federal partner agencies to develop intelligence products for a variety of law enforcement and civilian agencies. 

The DIAC was created in the spring of 2005 and it serves as a 

conduit and a filter for intelligence and other information for the 

Delaware State Police, as well as federal, State, and local partner 

agencies, both law enforcement and civilian. 

The DIAC is proactive at reaching out to partner agencies and 

in disseminating intelligence in a fast, efficient manner using a variety of products. 

There are several federal agencies that are represented at the 

DIAC. The Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, has one intelligence officer working at the DIAC. His primary responsibility 

is to serve as the liaison between the DIAC and federal agencies, 

as well as to assist in providing real-time situational awareness. 

Federal Protective Service, FPS, has one special agent working 

part-time at the DIAC. Her primary responsibility is to facilitate 

the flow of information between the DIAC and FPS regarding 

crime, First Amendment protests, and other activities occurring in 

proximity to federal facilities, as well as to send any pertinent federal information to the DIAC. 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, ATF: 

There is one analyst working at the DIAC. His primary task is to 

assist with iTrafficking, which is a crime intelligence-sharing pilot 

program undertaken by the International Association of Chiefs of 

Police, ATF, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. It is currently 

operational in New Jersey and Maryland is being developed in 

Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania. 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, provides information 

and analytical support to the DIAC via the JTTF. The FBI and 

JTTF also provide secret-level monthly meetings to law enforcement and executive personnel, as mentioned by SAC McFeely. 

In addition, the Delaware State Police and local police departments have officers assigned to work with Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, and ATF in a task force 

model. This facilitates operational coordination and information 

sharing across jurisdictional lines. 

While the DIAC has been successful in developing important 

partnerships with the previously mentioned federal agencies, there 

is still work to be done at the local level. The DIAC is focusing on 
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providing greater intelligence support to county, city, and local law 

enforcement agencies in Delaware, while improving its crime mapping capabilities to meet the needs of law enforcement agencies in 

the State as they move toward intelligence-led policing. 

The DIAC is also increasing its outreach to non-law enforcement 

first responders, such as its intelligence liaison officer program 

with the fire service in Delaware. 

In addition, we are hoping to increase the participation for the 

use of the Memex intelligence data base that is maintained by the 

DIAC. It’s utilized by all local and State law enforcement. 

We believe there is a promising future. We believe that the new 

culture of intelligence sharing has been established in law enforcement, and that spirit of cooperation presents a promising future of 

success. 

Two simple but significant examples of that success are as follows: On January 7, 2009, the DIAC released a special information 

bulletin regarding an unidentified bank robbery suspect. The Dover 

Police Department contacted the Delaware State Police later that 

morning with a possible name of the suspect and that identity was 

confirmed several hours later by the State Bureau of Identification 

using a fingerprint that was found on the bank note. 

Similarly, on May 18, 2011, the Delaware State Police homicide 

unit was investigating a murder that occurred in a motel located 

just outside the city of Wilmington. Two suspects were identified, 

but their whereabouts were unknown and they had no permanent 

address. 

Investigators contacted the DIAC to request a multijurisdictional 

alert to be sent to law enforcement agencies within the region, as 

well as the fusion centers in the neighboring States. 

The resulting special information bulletin was quickly disseminated to the targeted law enforcement agencies and within 24 

hours of the bulletin’s issuance, patrol officers within the city of 

Wilmington, working for the city of Wilmington Police Department, 

located and apprehended both suspects as they stood on a city 

street, having recognized them from the bulletin. They also recovered a knife that may possibly be the murder weapon used in the 

crime. 

We are grateful for this opportunity to address the panel and 

we’re grateful for your support and we look forward to your continued support. 

Thank you. 

[The prepared testimony of Colonel Coupe appears as a submission for the record.] 

Senator COONS. Thank you, Colonel Coupe. We will next hear 

from Chief Robert Hosfelt. Chief Hosfelt was hired as a patrolman 

for the city of Dover in September 1988, was promoted to patrolman first class, corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, captain, and then ultimately deputy chief in 2009. 

During his career, Chief Hosfelt has served in the patrol unit as 

a section leader, and in the criminal investigations unit, serving as 

a detective in both drugs, vice and organized crime, as section leader and as unit commander. He served in the special enforcement 

unit in the motorcycle section as a section leader and has served 
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in the planning and training unit as a drill instructor for the Dover 

Police Academy and as a firearms instructor. 

He has held the positions of operations division commander and 

public information officer. He served on the special operations response team for 20 years, and during that time was both team 

leader and ultimately team commander. 

Chief Hosfelt is a 1979 graduate of the Allegheny High School in 

Cumberland, Maryland, and holds an associate’s degree in criminal 

justice from Delaware Technical and Community College. 

Chief Hosfelt served in the U.S. Air Force from 1980 until 1987 

and is a 2010 graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, 

Virginia. 

Chief Hosfelt resides in Dover with his wife, Sherry, daughter, 

Jenna, and son, Jacob. 

Chief Hosfelt, thank you for testifying today. Please proceed. 

STATEMENT OF JAMES HOSFELT, CHIEF, DOVER POLICE 

DEPARTMENT, DOVER, DELAWARE 

Mr. HOSFELT. Thank you. I appreciate the opportunity. 

In 1988, when I began my career in law enforcement, there 

didn’t seem to be much in the way of information sharing. Then it 

was a matter of protecting your interests and it was believed the 

best way to do this was not to share information. 

We, law enforcement, were more concerned about jurisdictions 

and protecting what was ours than looking at the bigger picture 

and what was best for everyone. 

Fortunately for everyone, this appears not to be the case now, 

and I believe our specialized units have helped lead the way in this 

change. From my perspective, different drug units and SWAT 

teams from local and State law enforcement agencies began working together out of necessity. 

They pooled their resources to accommodate long-term investigations. This not only led to the increased information sharing but 

also to increased training with other agencies as well. 

Over the course of my 23 years with the Dover Police Department, technology, in my opinion, has had the greatest impact on 

information sharing among local law enforcement, State, and federal partners. 

Twenty years ago, a police officer was dispatched to a complaint, 

completed a handwritten report, turned it in to his supervisor, who 

then sent it to a records division, where it was stored unless it was 

asked for. 

Now, officers are dispatched to a complaint either through a computer or via radio. They complete a computer-based police report 

and LEISS, which is then available for everyone having access to 

the system Statewide. The same is true for arrest warrants. 

Statewide information and intelligence sharing has increased significantly because of the Delaware Information Analysis Center. 

This fusion center is the key component of information sharing of 

criminal intelligence and supports Statewide law enforcement investigations. 

The success of DIAC is largely due to the information support it 

receives not only from State agencies but also from our federal 
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partners alike. In other words, you get out of it what you put into 

it. 

I can think of no greater example of information and intelligence 

sharing for the State of Delaware than the Dover Downs International Speedway. Twice a year, Dover Downs hosts NASCAR 

events involving all three major racing series. On a normal day, the 

population of the city of Dover is believed to be about 40,000. On 

these two weekends, it rises to well over 300,000 people. 

Following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the NASCAR race 

at Dover Downs was the first major sporting event to be held in 

the Nation. The success of that weekend and all those following is 

because of the teamwork among a private business, federal, State 

and local law enforcement agencies. 

The joint operations center, the JOC, is a hub of activity every 

race weekend, involving the collaboration of information being 

shared by the Dover Police Department, Delaware State Police, and 

the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

The FBI has become a significant partner in the informationsharing business. Currently, the FBI hosts a monthly informationsharing meeting, known as the policymakers briefing. This is held 

at Dover Air Force Base. 

Senior law enforcement officials throughout the State and with 

the appropriate security clearance are invited to attend the briefing, where terrorism information is passed on to us at a local level. 

Additionally, the Dover Police Department and the FBI have entered into a training agreement where we provide the training location and they supply the instructors for a wide variety of law enforcement-related subjects. 

The Bureau has also provided funding for technical upgrades to 

our existing facility to support these training efforts. To this date, 

one class involving search and seizure has been taught and others 

covering various law enforcement subjects are planned. 

Select officers throughout the State of Delaware are given the opportunity to attend the FBI’s National Academy. This intensive 10- 

week course provides executive law enforcement training, as well 

as a unique networking system, because each session hosts approximately 250 students throughout the Nation, as well as the 

world. 

Because of the relationships formed during the session, the information is shared by classmates throughout the Nation and beyond 

far after graduation. 

Currently, the Dover Police Department has two police officers 

assigned full-time to the Drug Enforcement Administration task 

force in Dover. This has been an ongoing relationship since the mid 

1990s and it’s one we value very much. 

It is our belief that about 85 percent of our violent crime in 

Dover is tied to illegal drugs. The DEA brings to the table so much 

in the form of manpower and funding that helps us continue longterm investigations. 

As chief of a 93-man department, I could never afford to fund a 

long-term investigation involving wiretaps and surveillance. But 

because of the resources that the DEA brings, both manpower and 

funding, I am able to conduct these types of investigations. The obvious result of any investigation is the arrest of those involved. But 
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what comes with that is the seizure of money, property, and vehicles once owned by those arrested. 

As you well know, 80 percent of all assets seized during these investigations come back to local law enforcement agencies involved 

in the investigation. 

This is significant and provides the Dover Police Department 

with additional funding to support equipment purchases and training initiatives, which ultimately come back to support the fight 

against the illegal drug trade. 

One recent example: With the support of the DEA and the Delaware State Police, and the Dover Police Department, we are in the 

final stages of a major investigation involving illegal prescription 

medication. Thousands of pills have been brought into the Dover 

area by this identified group, which extends over 1,500 miles away. 

Because of the long arm of the DEA, we have been able to arrest 

the dealers in my area, as well as the supplier several States away. 

The case is expected to result in the seizure of millions of dollars 

in money, property and vehicles, all of which will help support our 

ongoing efforts to combat illegal drugs. 

The United States Marshals Service and their fugitive recovery 

team have been of great assistance to the Dover Police Department 

over the course of the last few months. On two separate occasions, 

the Marshals task force has responded to Dover and assisted in the 

recovery of two subjects wanted on several felony charges. 

The first subject was a known felon and was, again, wanted on 

several charges relating to receiving, possessing and concealing stolen firearms. The second subject was wanted in connection with the 

ongoing rape of a 10-year-old female. On both occasions, it was believed that the subjects were staying in the area, but could not be 

located without the assistance of the Marshals task force and the 

specialized equipment they bring to the table. 

It is not just these federal agencies described above who assist 

us. There are several other examples, such as the ATF supplying 

a sketch artist, which helped our criminal investigation unit with 

a long-term burglary investigation; the Secret Service conducting 

polygraph examinations; or ICE helping with counterfeit merchandise and trademark violations at Dover Downs. 

With any program, there is always room for improvement, but 

the collaboration between federal, State and local law enforcement 

in Delaware has to be an example for others to follow. I believe the 

size of our State has a lot to do with that and allows for direct communications at events such as our policymakers briefing with the 

FBI and our Delaware Police Chiefs Council meetings. 

The Dover Police Department is also grateful for the funding 

supplied through the COPS hiring program. As a result of this 

funding, Dover Police Department was able three 911 dispatchers 

in 1997, four law enforcement patrol officers in 2002, two school resource officers in 2004, and one additional patrol officer in 2009. 

All those hired under the COPS program are still employed and 

working full-time for the Dover Police Department. 

Has this public funding led to measurable public safety improvements? Without a doubt. During each of the last five years, I have 

seen a significant increase in the number of complaints assigned to 

my officers and without the support received through the COPS 
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program, my department’s ability to provide quality public service 

would have been diminished. 

The addition of these officers has given the Dover Police Department the flexibility to reallocate manpower, to address specific 

problems in high-crime areas. It has allowed us the option of adding officers to the criminal investigation and the drug unit to support the growing trend of violent crime and gang activity in my 

city. 

In closing, I leave you with this. The cooperation between federal, State and local law enforcement continues to have a positive 

effect on crime in our communities. The benefits are obvious to 

those in law enforcement and have helped them improve the quality of life for the residents of Dover. 

It is vital that this cooperation between law enforcement agencies continue, and I urge your continued support through funding 

sources such as the COPS program. 

Thank you. 

[The prepared testimony of Mr. Hosfelt appears as a submission 

for the record.] 

Senator COONS. Thank you, Chief Hosfelt. 

Next, we will hear from James Burch. Jim Burch is Deputy Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance in the Office of Justice 

Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice, where he has served 

for 17 years. 

Mr. Burch is responsible for overseeing VJA’s efforts designed to 

improve leadership in criminal justice policy and to provide services and resources to State, local and tribal law enforcement and 

criminal justice agencies to improve our National justice system. 

VJA is the largest of OJP’s components, responsible for a budget of approximately $1.5 billion, an average of 11,000 grant projects 

each year, and sponsoring roughly 2,000 annual training events 

reaching roughly 70,000 criminal justice professionals. 

During his tenure at VJA, Mr. Burch has led efforts to enhance 

accountability and communications with the field, to integrate evidence-based practices into VJA programs and resources, and to position VJA to best assist local law enforcement in implementing 

crime reduction and prevention strategies. 

Mr. Burch has a master of science in administration from Central Michigan University with a focus on administration and law 

enforcement and a B.A. in criminal justice from the University of 

Maryland-College Park. 

Mr. Burch, thank you for joining us, and please proceed. 

Chairman LEAHY. If I can just note, all statements will be placed 

in the record in full. So you may want to summarize the high 

points on it, but just so you know, the record will be in full. 

Also, on the questions afterward, once you get the transcript 

back and you say, ‘‘What I should have added was,’’ please do so, 

because this becomes actually part of the records of the U.S. Senate 

and will be used as we are going forward on legislation involving 

this. 

So do not worry. If you think you leave something out here, you 

are going to get plenty of time to correct the record and add to it. 

Thank you. 

Senator COONS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
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Mr. Burch. 

STATEMENT OF JAMES BURCH, PRINCIPAL DEPUTY DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE, OFFICE OF JUSTICE 

PROGRAMS, WASHINGTON, DC 

Mr. BURCH. Chairman Coons and Chairman Leahy, thank you 

for inviting me to be here today. I’m pleased to have this opportunity to discuss federal, State and local collaboration. 

VJA’s mission—my agency’s mission—is to provide leadership 

and services and criminal justice policy development to support 

State and local law enforcement strategies to achieve safer communities. 

The resources available are of critical importance to our partners, 

particularly in this challenging economic time. While National and 

most local crime rates remain at historically low levels, there are 

also cities, counties and States that are experiencing spikes in certain violent crime. Gang crime continues to impact many neighborhoods, and the continuing threat of terrorism posed by domestic 

and foreign extremists remains an enduring constant challenge for 

our homeland. 

Additionally, as all levels of government are affected by the economic crisis, we are doing our part to ensure that taxpayer dollars 

are used in ways that are effective and efficient, identifying and 

seizing on cost savings whenever possible. 

Effective collaboration and partnerships between federal agencies 

and local justice agencies in investing in innovation and evidencebased approaches are key to addressing emerging and continuing 

challenges, especially in this economic climate. 

While VJA’s mission is to support State and local agencies specifically, partnering with other federal agencies that have critical 

State and local resources is also essential. 

I want to acknowledge the important collaboration emerging between my office, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Department’s Community-Oriented Policing Office, which also has critical 

resources available to State and local agencies, as you’ve heard 

here today so well. 

Supporting partnerships with local law enforcement is a top priority of this Administration and of this Department of Justice. In 

particular, the Administration remains firmly committed to the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants Program, or JAG 

program, administered through what I believe is a unique federal, 

State and local partnership approach that allows for leadership and 

accountability while also providing flexibility in local funding decisions. 

The JAG program, which is administered nationally by VJA and 

state agencies such as the Delaware Criminal Justice Council, represented here today, is the leading source of federal justice funding 

that can be used in almost any area of the justice system. 

The Administration has requested $519 million in funding for the 

JAG program in fiscal year 2012. 

Since 2009, VJA has awarded over $2.9 billion in JAG funding 

across the Nation. This figure includes funding that was awarded 

through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of that, 

$16 million was awarded in fiscal year 2009 and fiscal year 2010 
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to the State of Delaware and to local eligible jurisdictions here 

within the State. These funds support both innovative crime-fighting approaches, as well as basic criminal justice operations. 

We also recognize that in addition to funding, training and technical assistance is an effective use of public safety dollars. As budgets continue to be leaner and our grant funding becomes leaner 

and, therefore, more competitive, our training and technical assistance efforts will provide even more vital support to our partners. 

We provide training and facilitate expert assistance on any criminal justice issue of concern to any local jurisdiction, and that goes 

to any justice organization, not just to those entities that receive 

our funding, but any justice entity can receive these services. 

For example, we recently provided training to approximately 200 

law enforcement and corrections personnel in Dover on identifying 

the characteristics of an armed gunman, and that was in follow up 

to training we did in 2007 on similar topics. 

Our training efforts are the underpinning of many of our new 

and innovative programs, including our officer safety initiative. 

Tragically, we have all seen and heard the stories about the increased number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of 

duty. In 2010, the statistics saw an increase of 40 percent over 

2009 line-of-duty deaths. 

Since January of 2011, in that short period of time, more than 

84 law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty. 

Our VALOR initiative, which is part of our officer safety program, 

is designed to help prevent line-of-duty deaths and ambush-style 

attacks on law enforcement officers through a comprehensive array 

of training and technical assistance. 

Another key component for us is the Regional Information-Sharing Systems program, or RISS, which provides secure information 

sharing and other resources for local law enforcement. The RISS 

program is helping us to address officer safety by launching a secure officer safety Web site, a deconfliction system, an event 

deconfliction system, to prevent inadvertent officer-on-officer incidents, particularly in undercover scenarios, and through other resources. 

VJA will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to 

support the critical risk program. Strong information sharing is 

also an important component of this response, as are partnerships 

such as the ones discussed in my written testimony, between the 

FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and through the leadership of the United States Attorneys. 

Investing in evidence-based programs is also a priority for the 

President and for the Attorney General. We have been working 

diligently in the Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Department 

of Justice to build a base of knowledge, to translate that knowledge 

into practice, and to otherwise promote scientific integrity in the 

criminal justice work that we do. 

Programs such as our smart policing initiative builds on the concepts of intelligence-led policing, offender-based and place-based policing by replicating evidence-based strategies and encouraging 

new, unique solutions to public safety problems. 

Our justice reinvestment initiative is also an example of a datadriven approach to help control spending on corrections and rein-
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vest savings into more cost-effective strategies. Justice reinvestment has shown significant results in communities throughout the 

country, including in Vermont, and I am pleased to report that 

Delaware is now well engaged in this initiative, thanks to an impressive group of leaders here in the state working through the 

Criminal Justice Council. 

Chairman Coons and Chairman Leahy, I would like to thank you 

again for the opportunity to participate today. So much of the responsibility for crime control falls on the local communities, and we 

are committed to assisting them through timely resources and 

through partnerships. 

Delaware has been a place of great opportunity and will continue 

to be thanks to the collective leadership represented here today. 

This concludes my oral statement. I am pleased to answer any 

questions. 

[The prepared testimony of Mr. Burch appears as a submission 

for the record.] 

Senator COONS. Thank you, Mr. Burch. 

Chairman Leahy is going to have to leave us in about 10 minutes 

to catch a train back to Washington. I am hoping he will get to ask 

a first round of questions before we do so. 

It is my great pleasure, finally, to introduce Ms. Drew Fennell, 

the Executive Director of the Criminal Justice Council of Delaware, 

just referred to by Mr. Burch. 

Prior to assuming that position, she was executive director of the 

ACLU of Delaware. She began her legal career as an employment 

attorney with Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor; received an undergraduate degree in English from University of Delaware; and 

received her law degree with honors from Rutgers School of Law 

in Camden, where she served on the law journal. 

Following graduation, she clerked for Judge Balick of the Delaware Court of Chancery, and is admitted to the Delaware Bar. 

Ms. Fennell is active in the community and serves on a number 

of boards and was appointed by Governor Jack Markell to the Judicial Nominating Commission and served until her appointment as 

executive director of the CJC. 

She received in 2008 the New Lawyers Distinguished Service 

Award from the Delaware State Bar and the 2010 Mary Philbrook 

Public Interest Award from Rutgers School of Law in Camden. 

Ms. Fennell, please proceed. 

STATEMENT OF DREWRY FENNELL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, 

DELAWARE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COUNCIL, WILMINGTON, DE 

Ms. FENNELL. Thank you. Chairman Leahy, Senator Coons, and 

distinguished guests, I am Drew Fennell, Executive Director of the 

Criminal Justice Council, and I’d like to thank you for this opportunity to tell you how federal criminal justice spending improves 

public safety on the ground in our State. And I’d also like to share 

with you a little bit about the exciting work we’re engaged in as 

part of the Bureau of Justice Assistance justice reinvestment initiative. 

The Delaware CJC, Criminal Justice Council, was first formed in 

1968 and acts as the State administering agency for all the funding 

through the Office of Justice Programs. The Council was created by 
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statute and is comprised of 27 criminal justice professionals, including six cabinet secretaries, the presiding judges of all our State 

courts, the Delaware attorney general, U.S. attorney general, chiefs 

of the major State, local and county law enforcement agencies, as 

well as three community representatives. And our current chair is 

our Lieutenant Governor, Matt Denn. 

Here in Delaware, our communities are safer because of the 

funding we receive through the Office of Justice Programs. In partnership with the Federal Government, we’re able to ensure that 

Delaware’s criminal justice system is fair, efficient, and accountable. 

The federal funding we distribute has a real effect in our commu- nities. Later today, the Council will vote to award over $4 million 

in federal funding to State and local law enforcement, courts, corrections, victims services, and community providers united in a 

common effort to ensure public safety. 

We have really worked hard to create a strategic planning effort 

to coordinate resources and prioritize funding for efforts to serve 

populations such as the mentally ill in our justice system. 

Earlier this year, the Council funded a mental health crisis intervention training for law enforcement and as part of the same effort, 

federal funds support Delaware’s mental health court. 

In addition, Delaware provides intensive supporting services 

through our mental health courts, which reduces the number of 

days offenders with mental illness spend in our prisons and psychiatric hospitals. 

Together, these efforts reduce recidivism, save money, and improve public safety. 

Building on our foundation of interagency cooperation and strong 

strategic planning, the Criminal Justice Council recently embarked 

on the first steps of the justice reinvestment initiative, funded and 

supported by the VJA. 

The justice reinvestment initiative is a data-driven process designed to allocate and manage criminal justice resources in the 

most cost-effective way to improve public safety. This initiative has 

required enormous commitment from our Governor, our courts, legislative leaders, and criminal justice authorities. And to succeed, 

we must continue to improve our information-sharing capability, 

collect and analyze criminal justice data, and develop policies and 

strategies based on that data so that we can implement evidencebased policies to increase public safety. 

The data analysis and information sharing required by the justice reinvestment initiative will augment our already robust law 

enforcement capacity in this area. Our goal is to provide information and analysis that will guide decision making at all stages of 

our criminal justice system. 

A strong information-sharing network will allow prevention, reentry, juvenile justice, corrections, and the courts to respond effectively to the realities of crime in Delaware and be certain that their 

efforts are effective in reducing crime. 

VJA brings more than just funding to Delaware. They also bring 

enormous technical expertise and knowledge of best practices. For 

us, as for many States, the move toward evidence-based programs 

is demanding. But with the commitment of our State’s leaders and 
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support from our federal partners and funding from your Senate, 

we are making excellent progress. 

We are in the beginning stages of important work, and I look forward to briefing you in the future about the fruits of our efforts. 

Thank you for your time. 

[The prepared testimony of Ms. Fennell appears as a submission 

for the record.] 

Senator COONS. Thank you very much, Ms. Fennell. Thank you 

to the entire panel for your testimony. 

As I mentioned, Chairman Leahy needs to depart soon for a train 

to Washington, and I would like him to ask the first question we 

ask of this panel today. 

Chairman Leahy. 

Chairman LEAHY. Thank you very much. Again, I want to thank 

Chris Coons for doing this. Incidentally, when you hear him talk 

about his concerns for law enforcement, he does not say it just 

here. We hear it a lot in Washington, too. You have a strong advocate there. 

In a way, I wish this hearing could be replicated in 49 other 

States with what we have heard. And I am just going to ask a couple questions. 

I was struck by something, Colonel, that you said, and it was 

also echoed by the chief. You started out basically as patrolman— 

not patrolman, just an officer. And we sometimes joked in our 

State Police that if one of the young officers screwed up, they had 

to walk a beat on the interstate. I never actually saw that. 

But what you said about proprietary information, things being 

shared based on friendship and all, I recall those days and I recall 

that concern, and, Chief, you said something similar. 

Now, we have 18,000 separate police departments in this country. They range from very small departments—the small sheriff’s 

department, a small local department—up to the State police. 

There is no one-size-fits-all. But I like to think we have moved 

from the days where if you know something, you might tell them; 

otherwise, you do not. 

In an era today, none of us can survive that way. So I was 

pleased by what you said. Do you feel that this has been a remarkable change or a good change, an evolving change during your time 

in law enforcement? 

Colonel COUPE. Yes, sir. I would—the last way you phrased that, 

evolving change. We’re not there yet. There is still room for improvement. But the communication is much better. 

An area that we are still growing in is the automated intelligence 

system. In our State, it’s software that’s referred to as Pemex. And 

that’s for storing criminal intelligence, and right now, that’s something that we’re still marketing within the State to get the trust 

from our local partners, that it is okay to put information into 

there and that you still maintain some control of your case, but at 

the same time, you’re sharing information. 

And they do that through a pointer system, where if you entered 

information about a particular suspect that you were looking at 

and I were to go in and either get ready to enter information on 

the same suspect or ask about that suspect, instead of giving me 
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all the details of your case, it would put you and I together. It 

would point me in your direction. 

And that’s a positive movement for law enforcement, because 

there are times where many of our investigations are sensitive. So 

you can’t put everything out there. But it is important that there 

is enough out there that we get together and work together. 

Chairman LEAHY. Chief, what about you? How do you feel? 

Mr. HOSFELT. Well, I agree. Again, the information sharing 

starts at a local level with the State, and then our federal partners 

come in. But to me, 9/11 2001 was the critical stage. That’s when 

we realized we had to do a better job of information sharing, and 

it’s not just with terrorism activity, but it was just criminal information sharing as a whole. 

Chairman LEAHY. And you referred to the fusion center, which 

you talked about before. Is that something where the Federal Government can help, can bring the various pieces together by pieces 

of all the different law enforcement and those involved? 

Mr. HOSFELT. Yes. This is a program that’s run by the State. It’s 

managed by the State. We share in that information gathering and 

inputting the information into it, and, again, that information is 

shared by our federal and our regional partners, as well. They 

bring information back to us; we bring information to them at the 

fusion center, as it is. 

Chairman LEAHY. You probably saw me making some notes here 

earlier. I am thinking of some things that I am going to be talking 

about back home in Vermont. 

Ms. Fennell, we would love to have somebody in Vermont announce the amount of money you are going to announce later 

today. I saw some ears perk up in the audience. 

And I liked what Mr. Burch, who has testified before our Committee before, talked about, the various programs and the sharing. 

And I think you have seen a major move forward in that, and I 

should compliment Senators who have been there before. Former 

Senator Biden was the one who pushed for that. It is something 

that we have tried very, very hard in the Judiciary Committee to 

authorize and then the Appropriations Committee to fund. 

So I am glad to see it. I am glad to see it coming together. I 

think there is nothing worse or nothing could be worse than somebody in law enforcement to say we missed this person because they 

knew about it, but the person was in our jurisdiction and we did 

not know about it. 

I understand the fact that you have got some things—if you are 

using investigators, you are using informants or something like 

that, you have to keep these things protected. 

But I am going to leave and I am actually going to read the transcript, but I was reading your testimony, Chief, and, Colonel, Mr. 

Burch, Agent McFeely, and Ms. Fennell, last night and it gives 

me—when I compare this to what I was hearing a couple decades 

ago in the Judiciary Committee, you are light years ahead of where 

we were in law enforcement then. 

We have always good, honest, hardworking people in law enforcement, but now we have a criminal element and an element of terrorism that moves way beyond anything that most of us saw in our 

earlier careers in law enforcement. 
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So I applaud you all for doing this. And, Chris, thank you for 

doing this. 

Senator COONS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

Chairman LEAHY. Thank you. And I will leave. 

Senator COONS. Folks, can we have a round of applause for the 

Chairman for joining us today? 

[Applause.] 

Senator COONS. The Chairman was sharing with me earlier that 

he wanted me to continue with questions. We discussed before the 

hearing a number of issues that he and I both share strong interest 

in, and we will probably do about another half an hour’s worth of 

question-and-answer with the panel, if I might, and he will be reviewing the full transcript. 

As he mentioned before, if there are things in either your written 

testimony or in follow-up that you would like to expand on, the 

record will stay open for a number of days so that we can end up 

having a full record that will be shared with all the Members of 

the Committee. 

It is a strong Committee that is very actively engaged in oversight and support of all the federal programs that relate to law enforcement, as well as intellectual property. I have some questions 

about both of those, if I might. 

I would just follow up on the line the Chairman was following 

there to Special Agent McFeely. The Department of Justice, as I 

understood it from your testimony, is working on a next generation 

data base to link crime reports, N–DEx. And can you speak about 

what that system will mean, how Delaware is helping in its creation? 

Chief, I understand that Delaware is unique in that all law enforcement agencies in the State are utilizing the same crime reporting system. I would be interested in hearing how that has helped 

with information sharing. 

If you would, Agent McFeely. 

Mr. MCFEELY. Delaware is unique in the fact that they are moving to one. There is basically one database that they use to collect 

the information. 

Compare that to Maryland. There are 134 different police agencies there, and there are 134 different databases. What you need 

in a situation like that, which pretty much mirrors the rest of the 

Nation, is some solution that is pushed out there that (a) is available to police agencies and (b) is free of charge. 

This N–DEx that is being pushed out is both of those things. It 

provides anybody with an Internet connection, which is most police 

agencies now throughout the country, the ability to do exactly what 

we are talking about here and exchanging real-time case information. 

And there have been numerous initiatives over the years that 

have been put forth. The beauty of N–DEx is that it is managed 

by the Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the FBI, 

which also maintains NCIC and III, as well as all the fingerprints 

and the biometric data that the world collects. 

So it is in good hands out there and it provides its robust work 

and already has that linkage through NCIC with every police agency in the Nation. 
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Senator COONS. Thank you. 

Chief Hosfelt and Colonel Coupe, if you would talk about our 

progress to date in rolling out N–DEx and what you see as the 

major challenges to getting all the agencies in the State to fully 

participate, and what will the benefits be once we get there. 

Colonel COUPE. As has been alluded to already by the chief and 

by SAC McFeely, we are unique in Delaware in that we use one 

crime reporting system. That is an automated crime report. All 

that information is stored at DELJIS. 

So in late 2009, early 2010, Delaware was able to agree and go 

online with N–DEx and provide that information to the FBI for inclusion in their database and access throughout the country. 

So that part is already taken care of for Delaware, and because 

we only had one crime report and one central area of storage, we 

are already 100 percent participating in that. 

Training for Delaware in that program just began in April 2011. 

Right now, that has been limited to a small pocket of investigators 

from different agencies and also from the DSP, but that training 

will be expanded on to utilize the system. 

As far as feedback from the use of the system, I don’t have that 

today, but I’m told that it has worked. It is providing what was requested. The challenge now is to get other agencies outside of the 

State of Delaware to participate. 

As SAC McFeely said, some states are not as fortunate as us. So 

they may have so many different operating systems. It is going to 

take a while until they are all online. 

Senator COONS. So what are the challenges to getting all of the 

law enforcement entities within the State of Delaware to participate? 

Colonel COUPE. Right now, because of DELJIS commitment, all 

of their reports are already there. 

Senator COONS. Automatically. 

Colonel COUPE. Now, the part for us is getting everyone trained 

in Delaware to have access to it, which will be—it will be helpful 

for an investigation. 

As was already stated, through NCIC, things like that, we can 

track someone’s criminal history in another State, but we didn’t 

have access to the crime report. 

But now if you do someone’s criminal history, you see a particular crime that you’re interested in, you could actually research 

and look at the actual investigative report information there that 

may help you in your investigation and point you to a particular 

investigator in another State or a particular agency. 

Senator COONS. And to what extent do City of Wilmington, New 

Castle County, DSP investigators that are dealing with crime, particularly drug crime that may be regional in its origin or gang-related crime, are they hampered by the lack of that 

interconnectivity in the region outside the State of Delaware? 

Colonel COUPE. There are challenges there, and I’ll let the chief 

speak on that, as well, because he has experience directly as a drug 

investigator. But, yes. Right now, the conduit oftentimes is the 

DEA, that we use them, go through them, sharing information, or 

it’s because someone has a contact in another State with another 

agency and you reach out. 
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But as far as accessing data bases, that is still a challenge. And 

as Mr. Burch mentioned about RISS and deconfliction, there is an 

effort there to go with a broader deconfliction. Right now, we use 

a system within our State, but this would help us broaden that circle within our State and outside of our State and the region, and 

we are working with them on that to figure out how to build that 

infrastructure. 

Senator COONS. That is great. 

Chief Hosfelt, did you want to add something? 

Mr. HOSFELT. The relationship with the DEA is important simply 

because it brings everyone together, whether it’s my investigators 

in Dover working with local law enforcement in New Jersey because of their connections with the Drug Enforcement Administration task force. 

It is not uncommon for us to work cases together. Again, I spoke 

earlier of us working the case several States away, 1,500 miles 

away, and we are able to do that because of our connection with 

the DEA. 

In Dover, speaking back to—criminals just don’t stay in Dover. 

He may commit a crime in Dover, but he is also going to commit 

that crime in New Castle County or in Sussex County. And it may 

not be—it may be as simple as an investigator reading about the 

arrest of someone in Dover, some crime that we have handled or 

investigated. 

He reads that, he looks into that person because of the intelligence and because of the information sharing that we have with 

our reports, the LEISS system and the DELJIS system, he can research that person, look at that warrant, find out that he is operating the same way in Dover as he has in Sussex County, and, 

again, they can build their case from there and that information is 

immediately available to them once it is put into the system by the 

officer investigating. 

Senator COONS. Thank you. 

Mr. Burch, I was interested in hearing more about what VJA has 

done to incorporate evidence into its programs. We have heard that 

evidence-based policing has been a major change across the country. 

Can you talk a little bit more about DOJ’s evidence integration 

initiative and how that seeks to facilitate more effective partnerships between federal and State grantees? 

Mr. BURCH. Yes, sir. I would be glad to do that. And on the latter 

point, some of our funding that we have provided for information 

sharing we have also encouraged agencies to use to connect to N– 

DEx nationally. And so we have provided some funding along those 

lines, as well. 

In terms of integrating evidence into our programs—and for 

those in the audience today, just to clarify here, what we are talking about is learning lessons from other places, other communities 

that have implemented similar strategies, determining what is 

most effective at reducing and preventing crime, and then showing 

others how to replicate those strategies across the country. 

And so the smart policing initiative is one place where we have 

done just that. And so, for example, fairly close to where we are 

today, in Philadelphia, we funded the Philadelphia Police Depart-
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ment to go in and do an experiment with foot patrols, foot patrols 

in high-crime areas or hot spots that the city of Philadelphia is 

dealing with. 

We want to evaluate that approach. We know that it can be effective. We want to know why it is effective. We want to know how 

much of it relates to actual positive outcomes. 

We are doing similar work in other places. In Glendale, Arizona, 

for example, we are experimenting with problem-oriented policing 

approaches to deal with burglaries. A number of communities today 

are seeing increases in burglaries in their communities sand so we 

want to develop strategies and tools that we can give to other departments that they can replicate, as well. 

But this is—evidence integration is not something we have just 

limited to our work in law enforcement. We are doing the same 

with drug courts, for example. Drug courts are very successful in 

helping folks avoid incarceration and receive the drug treatment 

that they need. 

We have learned from a recent evaluation about those drug 

courts about exactly what it is that makes them effective. So we 

are now retooling our drug court funding to be even more focused 

on those very specific strategies that can make a difference, and we 

are doing this in areas of prisoner reentry, as well, for those that 

deserve a second chance to make sure that we know what can be 

effective with them and how we support them. 

Senator COONS. Thank you. 

I would be interested, Ms. Fennell, if I might, in hearing from 

both you and Mr. Burch about the justice reinvestment program. 

What opportunities do you see for Delaware in implementing that, 

what you think that might bring to our community as you try to 

do your best with limited federal resources? 

As someone who has the fortune or misfortune of serving on the 

Budget Committee, as well as the Judiciary Committee, I see the 

increasing challenges our federal budget faces. I am pleased to hear 

Mr. Burch and Special Agent McFeely talk about how our federal 

partners are doing their best to leverage resources, to make them 

go farther. They are trying to learn from experiences around the 

country. 

But, Ms. Fennell, if you would just speak about both—there is 

a mental health court you referenced and the new RPI that you referenced. I would be interested in how you think those will be successful in making our communities safer. 

Ms. FENNELL. Well, let me—I will start quickly with the mental 

health court, because that is something we are well underway with. 

Our Council engaged in a strategic planning process, and one of the 

identified areas of priority was mental illness in the criminal justice system. 

It poses a great threat to people in the community and law enforcement when there are encounters between people in crisis and 

law enforcement. We have done a lot of training with law enforcement, three days with law enforcement, corrections officers, and 

core personnel on how to help people with serious mental illness 

and keep them and the people who are around them safe. 

And then to follow that up, with mental health court and the 

kind of supports they are able to provide, with having an intense 
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relationship with a particular judge and group of case managers to 

make sure those folks get what they need to stay safe and to stay 

out of jail and to stay out of trouble. 

It is a very tough problem, but one I think our agencies really 

worked very hard to coordinate efforts across the justice system. 

Justice reinvestment is a new initiative. We have just really 

started our work with the Institute of Justice through the Bureau 

of Justice Assistance. 

One of the things that it responds to, I think, most beautifully 

is what you just described, limitation of resources. There is a really 

focused effort to try to identify those functions that work really 

well and expend our resources on what we know works, both to reduce spending, to reduce our corrections population and the spending we spend on that—money we spend on that, but, also, to ensure that we have timely law enforcement data available to everyone so that we never endanger public safety. 

Whenever you’re trying to put change into a system, there is always a concern that whatever changes you do will have some unintended consequences. And one of the things about Delaware that 

I think is really great is the fact that we have this unified reporting system. 

We have great access to our data and we can—in ways that some 

other jurisdictions can’t—really provide timely feedback on how 

well we’re doing. 

Are we spending less money? Are we increasing public safety? 

Are we making our communities both safer and stronger by making 

sure that we are providing the kind of prevention resources, reentry resources, and law enforcement resources for them to integrate into a good program that makes them safe and strong and 

secure? 

Senator COONS. Thank you. 

Colonel Coupe and Chief Hosfelt, one of the things Chairman 

Leahy referenced was over his decades on the Judiciary Committee 

and, before that, his service as a local prosecutor—he is well aware 

of the long tradition, the culture of sort of hanging onto the information rather than sharing. And I am impressed with the progress 

we have made in Delaware with the DIAC, grateful for the leadership role Special Agent McFeely has taken in offering the sort of 

monthly policymakers briefings and extending clearances and coordinating both the national security and anti-crime focus. 

What else do we need to be doing in Delaware to continue to 

make progress toward a culture of collaboration, integration and 

information sharing, and what else is there that we federally could 

be doing to help bring resources to that task? 

Mr. HOSFELT. I think as far as federal help, the perfect example, 

nothing more, is our Delaware policymakers briefing that we have. 

It is great information. It is shared at a local level. And you, obviously, have to have the proper security clearance to hear the information and I think that is important. 

And it may also be as simple as—and I will use this—the local 

office of the FBI has two agents assigned to it. Both those agents 

are what I will call, for lack of a better term, Dover kids. They 

grew up in the area. They went to school there. They worked as 
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Delaware State Troopers before going on board with the FBI in the 

Dover area. 

So, again, most of us, we grew up together in law enforcement. 

So we have that common bond and communication flows freely. We 

are not protecting it. We understand the big picture. Again, we 

have been working together for so many years, I think that is a 

great help to us in the Dover area. 

Obviously, I can’t speak to other jurisdictions, but I know in my 

immediate area, that is of great help to us and just the communication is key. 

As far as local law enforcement, I think more trusting and I 

think we are learning to do that as far as the information sharing. 

And, again, I said it earlier, that you get out of it what you put 

into it, and I agree with that. I think that is a good statement. It 

is important for us to get the information out there so that we can 

all work together toward the common goal. 

I mean, we say that a lot, but it needs to be done, and I think 

we are doing a much better job of that here lately. 

Senator COONS. I know that both Colonel Coupe and Chief 

McGowan and their respective predecessors worked very hard to 

improve the partnership and the collaboration between county and 

state police. 

Anything else that we could be doing to try and encourage that 

all up and down the chain, city, county, State, and then partnerships with our federal friends? 

Colonel COUPE. I think the important thing is the financial support that the Federal Government brings. Many of the programs 

that we have success with were established through grant funding 

directly from the Federal Government, through one of the programs. 

For example, the fusion center itself was stood up with grant 

funding. Certain positions are still supported, and the State has to 

take on much of that burden. 

So the sustainment of the fusion center is such an integral piece 

in this intelligence network that it is important for that support. 

Another example that is not quite as visible, but, again, it was 

created with grant funding, and that is our forensic firearms unit, 

which is a partnernship with the ATF, utilizing NIBIN, the National Integrated Ballistics Imaging Network, but that was—— 

Senator COONS. You cannot have a good law enforcement hearing 

without some new acronyms. 

Colonel COUPE. Some acronyms. 

[Laughter.] 

Colonel COUPE. But it was—the expert that was brought on 

board was initially funded through a grant. He is now a full-time 

employee with the State of Delaware, Delaware State Police, and 

that program has many success stories where we are talking about 

sharing intelligence, examining evidence from a crime scene, 

inputting it into the national database, and developing a lead based 

on the sharing of information, sometimes within our own State, 

sometimes outside of the State. 

And, currently, because of the workload that that unit has taken 

on, we have acquired grant funding to hire a contact employee 

part-time to support our expert. But that wouldn’t be possible with-
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out the grant funding that we are getting from the Federal Government and the assistance with our own Criminal Justice Council 

here in Delaware. 

Senator COONS. I have two more topics I will touch on briefly. 

Then we will come to a close. 

Intellectual property protection is something that is of great importance to Chairman Leahy and to me. Your written testimony, 

Special Agent McFeely, spoke to that, the significant work that the 

FBI is doing in intellectual property protection and some of the 

work that has been done. 

And, Chief Hosfelt, some of your testimony also related to Dover 

Downs. There is actually some counterfeit enforcement that needs 

to be done. 

And, Mr. Burch, it is also something VJA has helped local law 

enforcement strengthen their capacity to do. So I did not know if 

any of the three of you wanted to comment on what you see as the 

biggest challenges and opportunities in partnering together to 

make sure that we protect American intellectual property, which, 

in some ways, is one of our greatest sources of exports and of new 

job creation, something a lot of Delaware companies take very seriously, and a number of you have been directly involved in important enforcement actions. 

Mr. McFeely, do you want to comment on that? 

Mr. MCFEELY. I think one of the biggest challenges right now is 

understanding how the cyber threat relates to the loss of intellectual property, basically the exfiltration of data that companies are 

investing billions of dollars of R&D, research and development, into 

in this country. 

It used to be, in the old days, if somebody coming to take that 

information involved an insider and whether it was for their own 

proprietary benefit, so they are going to sell it and make a profit, 

or whether it is a hostile country coming in here to circumvent our 

trademark or copyright or intellectual property laws, those days 

are waning; there has been a fundamental shift right now. That 

data can now be easily hacked into from places outside the State, 

outside the city, outside the country. 

And I think one of the focuses that really we are looking at from 

the Bureau’s standpoint is what is the threat right now, how has 

that shift really taken place, are our resources aligned properly to 

the cyber threat in relation to the traditional threat to intellectual 

property laws. 

Senator COONS. Mr. Burch, as you know, budgets are likely to 

continue to be tight. You face the unique challenge of having to deliver sort of the support and the training and the resources. 

What more do you think we could be doing to help local law enforcement with these IP enforcement challenges when we have so 

much on their plate in terms of just fighting drugs, gangs and 

crime and terrorist threats, National security threats? 

Mr. BURCH. I think that the resource question is a big part of 

the challenge here, is how do you ask an agency to take on a new 

task force or an expanded task force mission when the budget is 

already not sufficient to support the core mission. 

I think that, in part, is, as I mentioned, a resource issue, but it 

is also an education issue. There are many agencies, such as we 
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have heard from today, that see it at places like Dover, understand 

why it is an issue. And I think there is also a lot of us around the 

country that don’t necessarily understand how intellectual property 

crimes are linked to economic security, national security, and the 

safety and health of the American public. 

And so this is a top priority of the Administration—to address intellectual property crimes, particularly those that we see at the 

street level. I think one of the things that we are trying to do 

through our risk program and through some of our funding for intellectual property enforcement is to educate all of the criminal justice system about how these IP crimes are linked to other kinds of 

criminal activity, in particular, drugs and gangs and organized 

crime. 

And so that is a mission that we are doing our best to take on 

through the resources of the Pro IP Act, but also through our discretionary funding. And so we will continue to work at that. 

Senator COONS. As Mr. Burch knows, I am someone who has 

both joined the Pro IP Act and spoken in support of sustaining 

RISS. I agree. We have seen a great deal in the Committee that 

internationally both organized crime and terrorist groups are engaging in an unprecedented level of counterfeiting pharmaceuticals, 

aircraft parts, other industrial activity, as well as cyber crime, that 

poses a real threat to our Nation and is often underappreciated, 

and I look forward to working together on that enforcement trajectory. 

If I might, Mr. McFeely, just the last two questions. The FBI 

does not currently have a full-time analyst, if I understand correctly, at the DIAC and I did not know if you thought there might 

be some benefits to the addition of a full-time FBI analyst there. 

And I am concerned in what we have heard in both written and 

spoken testimony today about the prevalence of both gun and gang 

activity in Delaware, in Dover and Wilmington and elsewhere 

throughout our State that seems to be coming to our State from 

outside, in our region. 

And I wondered if you thought Delaware might benefit from participation in the high-intensity drug trafficking area or HIDTA program and whether you thought any elements of our community 

might be successful candidates or potential applicants for that program. 

Mr. MCFEELY. So, certainly, my goal is to get an analyst in 

DIAC. We have done the next best thing from that and basically 

put our FBI systems down there and given access to the analysts 

that are assigned there. But that still is not a complete replacement for putting an FBI analyst there. 

In the event that there are additional analytical positions appropriated to us next year, it will certainly be one of the things that 

will be in my annual request for resources. 

We have been working that very extensively with our FBI headquarters and the FBI is—actually, the special agents in charge 

next week are coming together with the director to talk about a fusion center engagement policy down in Quantico. That is one of the 

main topics we will be discussing, understanding that in order to 

really leverage—because I can’t agree with Chief Hosfelt more that 

if you build it, they will come, you get out what you put into it. 
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We have got to have a full-time presence there. So high priority 

for me. I am relatively confident that it will happen in the short 

term. 

Senator COONS. Thank you. 

Mr. MCFEELY. In terms of the HIDTA designation, I think 

HIDTA is one of the best tools that there is to bring State, local 

and federal resources together. It has been very effective. I am not 

sure how many HIDTAs there are right now, but believe there are 

well over 20 throughout the Nation. 

I am very active in the Baltimore-Washington HIDTA. I have 

seen the success stories day in and day out, including my own 

HIDTA initiatives run by some of my supervisors. We are really 

making a dent in both the violent crime and the drug trafficking 

aspects that go with the drug trafficking. 

So I am a firm supporter. We are going to work very closely to 

see whether or not the threat warrants a HIDTA—and if there is 

a possibility to get designated. It would be my recommendation we 

look at New Castle County—it is a county-designated program— 

and make a business case to see whether or not we could be picked 

up by a HIDTA. 

Senator COONS. Thank you. I am confident that folks both in 

New Castle County, Wilmington, the State would be interested in 

partnering with you, both US–301 and I–95 provide great economic 

development resources for our State, but also lots of less legal economic activity to our State. 

One of our challenges has been integrating with our region in 

terms of information sharing and law enforcement, but also providing appropriate federal resources to help local law enforcement 

deal with the significant increase in gun and drug and gang activity that that brings. 

As you could all tell, I could ask many more questions. I have 

got another 20 questions prepared for this panel. We will stay in 

communication afterwards, as the Chairman mentioned. We will 

keep the record open for a number of days in the event you have 

got additional testimony you would like to provide to us as we complete the record of this field hearing. 

And more than anything, I just want to thank you so much for 

taking time out of your very busy days. Ms. Fennell, Special Agent 

in Charge McFeely, Mr. Burch, Colonel Coupe, and Chief Hosfelt, 

thank you very much for your testimony today. 

This hearing of the Judiciary Committee is adjourned. 

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