1993-033-RES WHEREAS, the Office of Texas, through its Criminal grant assistance in the amount of crime prevention;

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CJU-1J 3. Proposed Project Activities (See Instructions on pages 13a and 13b.) To know where to go from a certain point, it is often necessary to know where we have been and to understand what programs have been successful. Since this grant will be our fourth one to receive in the area of crime prevention, we have a good idea of the types of programs that will benefit the problem areas. It is our continued goal to increase our communities ability to prevent crime. To continue to educate the citizens of Paris and Lamar County to be able to protect themselves from crime and-to-advocate those students in crime prevention. By continuing to do this, our community will continue to unite together and work together to fight crime. There are 25,000 people in the city of Paris and another 20,000 in Lamar County. By continuing to help these people to learn to protect themselves in these numbers, our community can continue to lower the crime rate. The lone crime prevention officer for the City of Paris and Lamar County has been certified as a crime prevention practitioner as well as a home and commercial security inspector. He has over nine years experience in law enforcement and as been in crime prevention for over three years. He is also the local crime stoppers coordinator as well as the public relations officer. With him being in these positions, people have learned to know and trust him and therefore do not hesitate to call when they have a problem or if a crime prevention program is needed. The Lamar County Sheriffs Office nor any other local county has a crime prevention officer. Therefore, when a program is requested outside the city limits, they are happy to call on the City of Paris crime prevention officer. The programs that we have in place within our unit are not new. but-they work and they are effective. We have set up neighbor hood crime. watch programs in all areas of the city and county. These 4. P.l~~E99I~ 1Jt:l1sta~~SQe lastro:Oth' im:ls IJIfpaQ>eSl13Bharrl:83b.}:hat are ow~ncome nous~ng pr~Jects. We ave no plans w at so ever to change the methods in which our crime prevention operates. The crime prevention keeps records as to how many programs that done for the public. Not only how many but what types, how many people were presented to, the number of crime prevention hand out material was distributed and geographic area. In addition to these records, the city police department keeps very detailed records as to the trends in the types of crimes as well as the actual crime rate from month to month and year to year. The City of Paris is dedicated to having a crime prevention unit as ,is depicted in the cash match on this grant. The city understands that the grant are gradually decreasing and that after five years ~he g:ant is subjec~ to cease. By the city having the foresight ~n th~s matter, the~r five year plan is very close to where they had hoped that it would be. With the assistance of this years grant and next years final grant, the City of Paris will have a top notch crime prevention program. .