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831 <br />Funding received through the Texas Narcotics Control Program will finance the <br />Regional Controlled Substance Apprehension Program, a multi- county /multi- <br />jurisdictional narcotics task force. Project personnel includes a commander, <br />secretary, prosecuting attorney, and five (5) agents. Besides funding these <br />eight (8) positions, grant monies will be used to pay for evidence purchased <br />by undercover narcotics officers and confidential informants; and for <br />confidential investigative expenses related to the payment of services and <br />specific information. Additional grant monies will finance necessary travel <br />and training expenses, reliable transportation and fuel costs, office rental <br />and supplies, and communication costs. <br />The project will work closely with other federal, state and local law <br />enforcement agencies in an effort to help remove illegal drugs and drug <br />traffickers from the streets. The participating counties and cities each <br />provide an officer to be used full -time by the task force. These agents will <br />work either in an undercover capacity to help identify, target and apprehend <br />drug dealers through drug purchases and open investigations; or work as part <br />of the community policing /drug interdiction team. <br />The attorney funded by the project will handle all civil forfeitures on <br />assets seized by the task force and prosecute, at the trial level, the task <br />force cases made in the participating counties. <br />N <br />