Title
Resolution to enter into a Reciprocal Agreement that will establish a regional task force known as the Hampton Roads Peninsula Drug Initiative which will include a partnership with the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, the Hampton Police Division, Newport News Police Department and the Virginia State Police.
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) Program is a federal grant program administered by the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) which is a direct component of the Office of the United States President. This program provides resources to assist federal, state, local and tribal agencies in coordinating activities that address drug trafficking in specially designated areas of the United States. ONDCP designated the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA (W/B HIDTA) in 1994 and it remains only one of 28 HIDTAs throughout the country. The W/B HIDTA region includes: Loudoun, Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Alexandria, Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover, Prince George and Roanoke counties in Virginia as well as the cities of Richmond and Petersburg; Harford, Baltimore, Howard, Anne Arundel, Montgomery, Prince Georges, Carroll, Charles and Wicomico Counties and the City of Baltimore in Maryland; Washington, DC; and Jefferson and Berkeley Counties in West Virginia. By execution of the Reciprocal Agreement with the Hampton Poilce Division (HPD), Newport News Police Division (NNPD) and the Virginia State Police (VSP), Hampton Roads Peninsula Drug Initiative (HRPDI) task force and the cities and agencies involved in this initiative will then join in the ranks of the other participating localities to become part of the W/B HIDTA task force.
HRPDI will be governed by a Command Board comprising of the Chiefs of Police for HPD and NNPD, and the VSP’s Division Commander of the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI), Chesapeake Field Office. The U.S. Customs and Immigration Homela...
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