NCJ Number
243304
Date Published
September 2009
Length
2 pages
Annotation
This fact sheet presents information on the Child Sexual Predator Program.
Abstract
This fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), presents information on the Child Sexual Predator Program (CSPP) administered by the COPS Office. The primary aim of the CSPP is to reduce and prevent child endangerment and to protect communities from sexual predators. Towards this aim, the COPS Office provides funding to communities through the CSPP to support community policing efforts at the local and State levels. In 2009, the COPS Office awarded around $12 million in CSPP grant funds to 26 agencies across the country to establish and support these efforts. Activities covered by these funds included "developing, enhancing, or maintaining sex offender registration programs or functions; improving information sharing between law enforcement and other service providers to investigate and prevent child sex crimes and to increase offender accountability; managing high-risk offenders in the community through strategic problem analysis and response development; and establishing or enhancing any other efforts to locate, arrest, and prosecute known child sex offenders."