The City of Newburgh Police Department is slated to get $375,624 of state funds as part of Operation IMPACT. Denise O’Donnell, commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), made the announcement of the funding Wednesday afternoon at the Glenn Hines Memorial Boys and Girls Club.
Orange County will receive a total of $918,401 in funds. According to the DCJS, Operation IMPACT is
the state’s program to tackle violent and gun crime through intelligence-based policing, partnerships among law enforcement and community organizations and timely use of accurate crime data. Operation IMPACT brings together 80 different law enforcement agencies in the state and targets the 17 counties Upstate and on Long Island that report 80 percent of crime outside of New York City.
According to the Times-Herald Record, the Newburgh Police Department will spend part of the money on a squad “to attack the low-level crimes that turn into big ones.”
Another part of the funding will go towards developing “a web-based Citizen Notification System to educate and involve the community.”(DCJS)
The DCJS also noted that crime is down in Newburgh:
Commissioner O’Donnell noted that so far this year, overall crime in Newburgh is down 18 percent, with a 6 percent reduction in violent crime and a 22 percent drop in property crime. In Orange County, crime is up slightly (1.6 percent) and violent crime is down 9 percent. However, burglaries in the county have increased nearly 11 percent (to 463 from 418.)
Other Orange County agencies receiving funding include the Orange County District Attorney ($110,900); the Town of Newburgh Police Department ($130,618); the Town of New Windsor Police Department ($134,886); the Orange County Sheriff’s Office ($106,937), and the Orange County Probation Department ($59,436).
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