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Office of News and Information Johns Hopkins University 3003 N. Charles Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3843 Phone: (410) 516-7160 / Fax (410) 516-5251 |
October 19, 1998 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Glenn Small, glenn@jhu.edu |
Community Policing Institute at Johns Hopkins Gets $912,000 to Carry on its Work
The Johns Hopkins University's School of Continuing Studies has been informed that the U.S. Department of Justice is providing $912,000 to carry on the work of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Community Policing Institute.The policing institute, based at the Homewood campus in Baltimore, is a partnership of 17 law enforcement, community and academic organizations, serving a region that includes Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C. and several counties in Virginia, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
We are pleased with what they are doing, said Karl Bickel, a coordinator for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, the arm of the U.S. Department of Justice which allocated the funding for the institute.
The Mid-Atlantic institute is one of 30 such community policing institutes nationwide, which grew out of the 1994 crime bill which provided money for 100,000 new police officers on the street. Money was budgeted beginning in 1997 to create and staff regional policing institutes to help train some of these new officers and to support existing law enforcement with education and other services, said MARCPI director Mark G. Spurrier.
We re excited by the work the Institute is doing in support of community policing throughout the region, and we re pleased the justice department has recognized the significant impact the institute has had by continuing its funding, said Stanley C. Gabor, dean of the Hopkins School of Continuing Studies.
In its first full year of operation, MARCPI provided education and training to more than 3,400 law enforcement representatives, community members and academics. Among the training and programs:
Partners in the institute include the Annapolis police department, the Anne Arundel County police department, Baltimore City police, Baltimore County police, Citizens Planning and Housing Association, Harford County Sheriff's Department, Howard County police department, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Community Crime Prevention Institute, Maryland Crime Prevention Association, Maryland Police Training Commission, Maryland State Police, Maryland Sheriff's Association, the Montgomery County police, Prince George's County police department, Washington Metropolitan police, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the district of Maryland.
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