The United States Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice's Fiscal Year 2018 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants Program provides funding for state and local governments to improve the quality and timeliness of forensic services and to eliminate backlogs in the analysis of forensic evidence including controlled substances, firearm and tool mark examinations, latent prints, toxicology and trace evidence.
The Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD) is requesting funding under the Fiscal Year 2018 Coverdell grant in the amount of $210,900.00 for equipment and consultant/contracts costs for the Fort Worth Police Department's Crime Lab. Equipment purchases include $132,000.00 for a gas chromatography-flame ionization detector-mass spectrometer (GC-FID-MS ); $14,000.00 for a portable remote firing cart; $7,500.00 for a comparison microscope camera; and $12,300.00 for a fingerprint comparison training course program. Consultants/ Contractor Service purchases includes $17,100.00 to provide a two-day workshop on the topic of Cognitive Bias in forensic science from a leading international expert that will efficiently and effectively educate staff to assist them in more accurately interpreting their work and in reducing the number of backlogged cases, and $28,000.00 for validation services to be performed by an external vendor which will enable the Chemistry Unit personnel to continue to work on their cases and not having to work on validating new instruments which causes a backlog.
No matching funds are required. This grant is not eligible for indirect costs because no City salaries are being requested.
This grant serves ALL COUNCIL DISTRICTS.
This contract will be with a governmental entity, state agency or public institution of higher education: U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ), National Institute of Justice (NIJ). |