WHEREAS, funding for technology and other initiatives has always been a challenge for state police and highway patrol agencies; and

WHEREAS, federal funding assistance has helped state police and highway patrol agencies meet this challenge; and

WHEREAS, federal grants that have been provided to state police and highway patrol agencies have always been spent judiciously and used to the advantage of their full constituencies, the citizens of the jurisdictions, the states they serve, and other law enforcement agencies within those jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, the traditional mission of state police and highway patrol agencies has been to provide service, protection, and enforcement for its constituent citizens and to provide assistance, backup, technological support, training, and supplemental manpower to local law enforcement agencies within their states and jurisdictions; and

WHEREAS, heretofore state police and highway patrol agencies have been ineligible for federal Block Grant funding; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the International Association of Chiefs of Police Division of State and Provincial Police does hereby support and urge that all future Block Grant funding include state police and highway patrol agencies as eligible recipients.