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Subtitle C—Study on Police
Officers’ Rights
SEC. 1021. STUDY ON POLICE OFFICERS’ RIGHTS.
The Attorney General, through the National Institute
of Justice, shall conduct a study of the procedures followed
in internal, noncriminal investigations of State and local
law enforcement officers to determine if such investiga-
tions are conducted fairly and effectively. The study shall
examine the adequacy of the rights available to law en-
forcement officers and members of the public in cases in-
volving the performance of a law enforcement officer, in-
cluding—
(1) notice;
(2) conduct of questioning;
(3) counsel;
(4) hearings;
(5) appeal; and
(6) sanctions.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this
Act, the Attorney General shall submit to the Congress
a report on the results of the study, along with findings
and recommendations on strategies to guarantee fair and
effective internal affairs investigations.
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Subtitle D—Cop-on-the-Beat Grants
SEC. 1031. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as ‘‘The Cop-on-the-Beat
Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 1032. COP-ON-THE-BEAT GRANTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711
et seq.), as amended by section 633(a), is amended—
(1) by redesignating part Q as part R;
(2) by redesignating section 1701 as section
1801; and
(3) by inserting after part P the following new
part:
‘‘PART R—COP-ON-THE-BEAT GRANTS
‘‘SEC. 1701. GRANT AUTHORIZATION.
‘‘(a) GRANT PROJECTS.—The Director of the Bureau
of Justice Assistance may make grants to units of local
government and to community groups to establish or ex-
pand cooperative efforts between police and a community
for the purposes of increasing police presence in the
community, including—
‘‘(1) developing innovative neighborhood-ori-
ented policing programs;
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‘‘(2) providing new technologies to reduce the
amount of time officers spend processing cases in-
stead of patrolling the community;
‘‘(3) purchasing equipment to improve commu-
nications between officers and the community and to
improve the collection, analysis, and use of informa-
tion about crime-related community problems;
‘‘(4) developing policies that reorient police em-
phasis from reacting to crime to preventing crime;
‘‘(5) creating decentralized police substations
throughout the community to encourage interaction
and cooperation between the public and law enforce-
ment personnel on a local level;
‘‘(6) providing training and problem solving for
community crime problems;
‘‘(7) providing training in cultural differences
for law enforcement officials;
‘‘(8) developing community-based crime preven-
tion programs, such as safety programs for senior
citizens, community anticrime groups, and other
anticrime awareness programs;
‘‘(9) developing crime prevention programs in
communities that have experienced a recent increase
in gang-related violence; and
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‘‘(10) developing projects following the model
under subsection (b).
‘‘(b) MODEL PROJECT.—The Director shall develop
a written model that informs community members regard-
ing—
‘‘(1) how to identify the existence of a drug or
gang house;
‘‘(2) what civil remedies, such as public nui-
sance violations and civil suits in small claims court,
are available; and
‘‘(3) what mediation techniques are available
between community members and individuals who
have established a drug or gang house in the
community.
‘‘SEC. 1702. APPLICATION.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) To be eligible to receive a
grant under this part, a chief executive of a unit of local
government, a duly authorized representative of a com-
bination of local governments within a geographic region,
or a community group shall submit an application to the
Director in such form and containing such information as
the Director may reasonably require.
‘‘(2) In an application under paragraph (1), a single
office, or agency (public, private, or nonprofit) shall be
designated as responsible for the coordination, implemen-
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tation, administration, accounting, and evaluation of serv-
ices described in the application.
‘‘(b) GENERAL CONTENTS.—Each application under
subsection (a) shall include—
‘‘(1) a request for funds available under this
part for the purposes described in section 1701;
‘‘(2) a description of the areas and populations
to be served by the grant; and
‘‘(3) assurances that Federal funds received
under this part shall be used to supplement, not
supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise be
available for activities funded under this part.
‘‘(c) COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.—Each application shall
include a comprehensive plan that contains—
‘‘(1) a description of the crime problems within
the areas targeted for assistance;
‘‘(2) a description of the projects to be
developed;
‘‘(3) a description of the resources available in
the community to implement the plan together with
a description of the gaps in the plan that cannot be
filled with existing resources;
‘‘(4) an explanation of how the requested grant
shall be used to fill those gaps;
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‘‘(5) a description of the system the applicant
shall establish to prevent and reduce crime problems;
and
‘‘(6) an evaluation component, including per-
formance standards and quantifiable goals the appli-
cant shall use to determine project progress, and the
data the applicant shall collect to measure progress
toward meeting project goals.
‘‘SEC. 1703. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS; LIMITATIONS ON
GRANTS.
‘‘(a) ALLOCATION.—The Director shall allocate not
less than 75 percent of the funds available under this part
to units of local government or combinations of such units
and not more than 20 percent of the funds available under
this part to community groups.
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATIVE COST LIMITATION.—The Di-
rector shall use not more than 5 percent of the funds avail-
able under this part for the purposes of administration,
technical assistance, and evaluation.
‘‘(c) RENEWAL OF GRANTS.—A grant under this part
may be renewed for up to 2 additional years after the first
fiscal year during which the recipient receives its initial
grant, subject to the availability of funds, if the Director
determines that the funds made available to the recipient
during the previous year were used in a manner required
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under the approved application and if the recipient can
demonstrate significant progress toward achieving the
goals of the plan required under section 1702(c).
‘‘(d) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of a
grant made under this part may not exceed 75 percent
of the total costs of the projects described in the applica-
tion submitted under section 1702 for the fiscal year for
which the projects receive assistance under this part.
‘‘SEC. 1704. AWARD OF GRANTS.
‘‘(a) SELECTION
OF RECIPIENTS.—The Director
shall consider the following factors in awarding grants to
units of local government or combinations of such units
under this part:
‘‘(1) NEED AND ABILITY.—Demonstrated need
and evidence of the ability to provide the services de-
scribed in the plan required under section 1702(c).
‘‘(2) COMMUNITY-WIDE
RESPONSE.—Evidence
of the ability to coordinate community-wide response
to crime.
‘‘(3) MAINTAIN
PROGRAM.—The ability to
maintain a program to control and prevent crime
after funding under this part is no longer available.
‘‘(b) GEOGRAPHIC
DISTRIBUTION.—The Director
shall attempt to achieve, to the extent practicable, an equi-
table geographic distribution of grant awards.
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shall be required to either submit reports of individual ex-
portations or to submit periodic reports of the exportation
of such listed chemicals to the Attorney General at such
time or times and containing such information as the At-
torney General shall establish by regulation.
‘‘(3) The Attorney General may by regulation waive
the 15-day advance notice requirement for the importation
of specific listed chemicals if the Attorney General deter-
mines that the requirement is not necessary for effective
chemical control. If the advance notice requirement is
waived, importers of such listed chemicals shall be re-
quired to submit either reports of individual importations
or periodic reports of the importation of such listed chemi-
cals to the Attorney General at such time or times and
containing such information as the Attorney General shall
establish by regulation.’’.
(b) PENALTIES.—Section 1010(d) of the Controlled
Substances Import and Export Act (21 U.S.C. 960(d)),
as amended by section 1015(b), is amended by—
(1) striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph (3);
(2) striking the comma at the end of paragraph
(4) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
(3) by adding after paragraph (4) the following
new paragraph: