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‘‘(4) award grants to pay for or train officers 
hired to perform intelligence, anti-terror, or home-
land security duties;’’; 
(D) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 
following: 
‘‘(5) award grants to hire school resource offi-
cers and to establish school-based partnerships be-
tween local law enforcement agencies and local 
school systems to combat crime, gangs, drug activi-
ties, and other problems in and around elementary 
and secondary schools;’’; 
(E) by striking paragraph (9); 
(F) by redesignating paragraphs (10) 
through (12) as paragraphs (9) through (11), 
respectively; 
(G) by striking paragraph (13); 
(H) by redesignating paragraphs (14) 
through (17) as paragraphs (12) through (15), 
respectively; 
(I) in paragraph (14), as so redesignated, 
by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(J) in paragraph (15), as so redesignated, 
by striking the period at the end and inserting 
a semicolon; and 
(K) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(16) establish and implement innovative pro-
grams to reduce and prevent illegal drug manufac-
turing, distribution, and use, including the manufac-
turing, distribution, and use of methamphetamine; 
‘‘(17) hire and rehire civilian forensic analysts 
and laboratory personnel; 
‘‘(18) establish criminal gang enforcement task 
forces, consisting of members of Federal, State, and 
local law enforcement authorities (including Federal, 
State, and local prosecutors), for the coordinated in-
vestigation, disruption, apprehension, and prosecu-
tion of criminal gangs and offenders involved in local 
or multi-jurisdictional gang activities; and 
‘‘(19) award enhancing community policing and 
crime prevention grants that meet emerging law en-
forcement needs.’’; 
(3) by striking subsection (c); 
(4) by striking subsections (h) and (i); 
(5) by redesignating subsections (d) through (g) 
as subsections (f) through (i), respectively; 
(6) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(c) TROOPS-TO-COPS PROGRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Grants made under sub-
section (a) may be used to hire former members of 
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the Armed Forces to serve as career law enforce-
ment officers for deployment in community-oriented 
policing, particularly in communities that are ad-
versely affected by a recent military base closing. 
‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, ‘former 
member of the Armed Forces’ means a member of 
the Armed Forces of the United States who has 
been honorably discharged from the Armed Forces 
of the United States. 
‘‘(d) COMMUNITY PROSECUTORS PROGRAM.—The 
Attorney General may make grants under subsection (a) 
to pay for additional community prosecuting programs, in-
cluding programs that assign prosecutors to— 
‘‘(1) handle cases from specific geographic 
areas; and 
‘‘(2) address counter-terrorism problems, spe-
cific violent crime problems (including intensive ille-
gal gang, gun, and drug enforcement) and quality of 
life initiatives, and localized violent and other crime 
problems based on needs identified by local law en-
forcement agencies, community organizations, and 
others. 
‘‘(e) TECHNOLOGY GRANTS.—The Attorney General 
may make grants under subsection (a) to develop and use 
new technologies (including interoperable communications 
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technologies, modernized criminal record technology, and 
forensic technology) to assist State and local law enforce-
ment agencies in reorienting the emphasis of their activi-
ties from reacting to crime to preventing crime and to 
train law enforcement officers to use such technologies.’’; 
(7) in subsection (f), as so redesignated— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘to 
States, units of local government, Indian tribal 
governments, and to other public and private 
entities,’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘define 
for State and local governments, and other pub-
lic and private entities,’’ and inserting ‘‘estab-
lish’’; 
(C) in the first sentence of paragraph (3), 
by inserting ‘‘(including regional community po-
licing institutes)’’ after ‘‘training centers or fa-
cilities’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) EXCLUSIVITY.—The Office of Community 
Oriented Policing Services shall be the exclusive 
component of the Department of Justice to perform 
the functions and activities specified in this part.’’; 
(8) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘may utilize any component’’, and all that 
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