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SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake City Police Department has secured more than $2 million in federal grant money to use on various projects.
Chief Chris Burbank said the funds are a "credit" to those who worked to secure them and to the department as a whole and will be devoted to projects from elderly abuse to cold case murders.
"The police department regularly scours grant opportunities to support public safety projects not covered in the normal course of budget planning," Burbank said in a news release.
Many of the grants came from the U.S. Department of Justice and amount to as much as $530,000. That amount was awarded in the form of a Justice Assistance Grant that will go toward training, SWAT and patrol rifles and crime analysis software.
The Salt Lake Elder Abuse Project received $400,000 of the money to help women age 50 and over who have been victims of abuse, exploitation or neglect. Another $389,000 will be used to cover the DNA analysis costs incurred in the investigation of cold case homicides.
Other grants will be used for equipment and training to be used in the department's forensic lab as well as in their efforts to prevent and address instances of domestic violence.
Some of the grants were awarded retroactively, but will be applied to future budgets.
