Other Programs

Washington State False Alarm Reduction Effort

The Washington Burglar and Fire Alarm Association and the National Burglar and Fire Alarm Association have joined with Washington Law Enforcement in a concentrated effort to reduce false alarms in this State. Washington was one of four states involved in the successful Model States Program during 1998, involving 57 agencies throughout the country. John Wurner, who is now taking the lessons learned from the Model States effort to police agencies in all 50 states, is available to assist local agencies in their efforts.

You can call for these services:

• Copy of the Model States final report.
• Complete software package for false alarm tracking. (no cost to law enforcement agencies)
• Alarm industry contacts to support any changes that are included in the model alarm ordinance, when appearing before your legislative body.
• Copy of the Model Alarm Ordinance. (this ordinance was created with full support of law enforcement and the national burglar and fire alarm association)

For information contact WASPC

Traffic Safety Grants.

Traffic Safety Grant Awards/Statistics 2006-2007

The next cycle for grant applications to be turned in will begin November 2007 with the deadline of December 15th, 2007
For application forms Click Here.

Grant purpose areas are as follows:

1. Mini grants - educational/promotional materials
   
2. Equipment grants - traffic enforcement equipment, including, but not limited to, PBT's, radar units, and computers. Listed below are maximum awards for certain types of equipment. Other equipment requests will be evaluated on a case by case basis.
   
   • Handheld Radar $799
   • Radar (Other) $1,000
   • Rear Antenna $400
   • FST's $500
   • Spike Strips $394
   • In-Car Video System $1,000
   • In-Car Video System (digital) $2,500
   • Digital Camera $300
   • 35mm Camera $200
   • Lidar Radar $3,000
3. Multi-jurisdictional grants - including, but not limited to, enforcement based educational activities or radar/readerboard trailers.

Questions and/or comments about this program should be directed to Heidi Hughes at the WASPC office (360) 486-2380.

Thank you for your continued support of this valuable program.