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Whitfield Secures Funds for Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force
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News | Congressman Ed Whitfield | United States Representative
Whitfield Secures Funds for Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force
September 30, 2008
WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Ed Whitfield (KY-01) secured $350,738 today from the U.S. Department of Justice for the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force in Hopkinsville. The funds will be used to enhance the Task Force's efforts to curb methamphetamine use throughout the First Congressional District.
"While methamphetamine use has slowly been declining throughout the United States, it still remains a very real threat to our children, our families and our communities in Kentucky," Whitfield said. "For 20 years, the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force has been on the front lines combating this epidemic in our area and I am proud to support them in any way I can."
The grant will help the Task Force improve and continue their Methamphetamine Hot Spots Program to combat the sale and production of methamphetamines throughout the First Congressional District. The Task Force is providing educational programs on the dangers and effects of methamphetamine to law enforcement, schools, civic organizations and churches.
Training is also provided by the Task Force to law enforcement in the First Congressional District to enhance their skills in the investigation of persons manufacturing and selling methamphetamines. The Task Force will continue to assist counties and cities as they form Drug Endangered Children Coalitions to serve and protect young people living in methamphetamine homes.
"With the drastic cuts in drug task force funding around Kentucky this year, Congressman Whitfield's federal meth initiative has kept the doors open for drug task forces' fight against meth in the First Congressional District," said Director of the Pennyrile Narcotics Task Force Cheyenne Albro.
Whitfield has long been an advocate for the Task Force, working to secure the funds announced today as well as $350,000 for the organization in 2005. Over the past eight years, Whitfield has secured more than $5 million to help local law enforcement agencies throughout the First Congressional District combat the methamphetamine epidemic.
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