Projects In Progress

• Crime Victim Witness Assistant - State
• Economic Recovery Act 2009 Youth Project
• Forensic Computer Analysis and Asset Forfeiture
• Minneapolis COPS Hiring
• Minneapolis Police Officer Retention JAG Program
• Minneapolis Police Strategic Information Center
• Problem Properties
• Winterization of Condemned Houses

Not Funded

• ARRA Port Security
• Crime Victim Witness Assistant - Federal
• Downtown 100
• Enhancing and Retaining Community Prosecution
• Increasing the number of Mobile Data Computers
• Prostitution Prevention /Youth
• Technology Enhancements

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• Minnesota Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
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Forensic Computer Analysis and Asset Forfeiture

Dollars Awarded

$442,140

Project Status

Fully completed

Project Description

The Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) will increase the number and quality of investigations involving the analysis of digital media including computers, cell phones, PDAs and other handheld digital devices. The MPD will conduct prosecutorial examination of cases related to information retrieved from the digital devices for charging offenders, disrupting and dismantling criminal enterpises and organizations, and reducing related crimes such as homicide, aggravated assaults, robbery and child pronography. Information retrieved from the digital media leading to criminally-gained assets will lead to action to seizure of those assets. This program will be a unique partnership between the MPD and the Hennepin County Attorney's Office enhancing the coordination of investigative efforts and prosecutorial guidance regarding major crimes and asset forfeiture actions. The MPD Computer Forensic Analysis for Major Crime and Asset Forfeiture Investigations Program will actively promote and participate in information exchange and investigative opportunities with other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.

Funding Program

Federal: Edward Byrne Memorial Competitive Grant Program

Responsibility for Implementation

Police Department

Funding Agency

US Department of Justice

Dollars Leveraged

Data not yet available.

Dollars Leveraged Description

Data not yet available.

Dollars Requested

$442,140

Projected Jobs Created

3

Award Type

Grant

Sub-recipient Names

No sub-recipients have been contracted to date.

Vendor Names

No vendors have been contracted to date.

Recovery Funds Spent to Date

$442,140