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827 CJU: 1:3 �. Proposed Project Activitles (Sea Instructions on pages 13a and 13b.) Since this is our fifth and final crime Prevention crant, we feel as though we have a good idea of the types of programs that work in our community. It is our continued goal to 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 and work together to fight crime. There are over 45,000 people in the Paris /Lamar County area. The continued education of these people to _:rotect themselves will enable the crime rate to lower. The lone crime'orevention officer for the city of Pars and Lamar County is a dertified crime prevention practitioner as well as a home and commercial security inspector. He has almost ten years of law enforcement experience with almost five of those years in crime prevention. He is also the local crime steppers coordinator as well as the public information officer. By being in these positions, the public has learned to know and trust him and therefore do not hesitate to call him with a problem or to ask for a crime prevention service. There are no other law enforcement agencies in this area that have a crime prevention program. Therefore, we have many request to do programs outside the city limits of Paris. The programs that we use in our unit are not new. However, the programs that we do have have been very successful. Neighborhood crime watch programs have been established in all different types of areas in the city and county. These areas range from the most elegant neighborhoods to the'low income projects. The Paris Police Department holds annual in service training which includes culture awareness training. We 'realize that all facets of the community need this type of information and the better that we understand the different cultures, the better we can serve the whole community. 4. Proposed .Evaluation Design (See Instructions on pages 13a and 13b.) The crime prevention officer keeps records as to how many programs that are done for the public. Not only how many, but what types, how many people were presented to, the number of crime prevention hand out materials were distributed, as well as the 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 we_11 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. This is the fifth of a five year program. Without the assistance that this grant has provided, the citizens of Paris would certainly not have had the benefits that we have been able to provide for them. The crime rate has gone down and stabilized in this community and many people have been saved from being the victim oT a crime thanks to the training that this department has been able to provide. Thank you for your assistance on this last grant and for the past four years.