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Retired Law Enforcement Officers Continuing Service Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a grant program to help law enforcement agencies with civilian law enforcement tasks, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill authorizes the Department of Justice to award grants for state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to hire retired law enforcement personnel to perform civilian law enforcement tasks on behalf of the agency and to train civilian employees in the performance of such tasks.

Under the bill, the term civilian law enforcement task includes assisting with certain investigations, reviewing camera footage, conducting crime scene analysis, and conducting forensic analysis.

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Timeline

  1. SenateCommittee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Grassley with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
  2. SenateCommittee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  3. Library of CongressIntroduced in Senate
  4. SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
  5. Introduced
  6. Committee

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