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City of La Porte <br />STEP- Sinqle Year - 2013 Comprehensive <br />J. Support grant enforcement efforts with public information and education (PME) <br />activities. Salaries being claimed for PME activities must be included in the budget. <br />K. Ensure that each officer working on the STEP project will complete an officer's daily <br />report form. The form should include at a minimum: name, date, badge or identification <br />number, type of grant worked, grant site number, mileage (including starting and ending <br />mileage), hours worked, type of citation issued or arrest made, officer and supervisor <br />signatures. <br />L. Ensure that no officer above the rank of Lieutenant (or equivalent title) will be <br />reimbursed for enforcement duty, unless the Subgrantee received specific written <br />authorization from the Department, through eGrants system messaging, prior to <br />incurring costs. <br />M. Subgrantee may work additional STEP enforcement hours on holidays or special <br />events not covered under the Operational Plan. However, additional work must be <br />approved in writing by the Department, through eGrants system messaging, prior to <br />enforcement. Additional hours must be reported in the Performance Report for the time <br />period for which the additional hours were worked. <br />N. If an officer makes a STEP -related arrest during the shift, but does not complete the <br />arrest before the shift is scheduled to end, the officer can continue working under the <br />grant to complete that arrest. <br />O. Subgrantees with a traffic unit will utilize traffic personnel for this grant, unless such <br />personnel are unavailable for assignment. <br />P. Prior to conducting speed enforcement, the Subgrantee must select and survey <br />enforcement sites that comply with existing state mandated speed limits in accordance <br />with the Texas Transportation Code, Sections 545.352 through 545.356. <br />Q. Officers assigned to speed sites should be trained in the use of radar or laser speed <br />measurement devices. <br />R. Officers working DWI enforcement must be trained in the National Highway Traffic <br />Safety Administration/International Association of Chiefs of Police Standardized Field <br />Sobriety Testing (SFST). In the case of a first year subgrantee, the officers must be <br />trained, or scheduled to be SFST trained, by the end of the grant year. For second or <br />subsequent year grants, all officers working DWI enforcement must be SFST trained. <br />S. The Subgrantee should have a procedure in place for contacting and using drug <br />recognition experts (DREs) when necessary. <br />T. The Subgrantee is encouraged to use the DWI On-line Reporting System available <br />through the Buckle Up Texas Web site at www.buckleuptexas.com. <br />2013-LaPorte-S-1YG-0019 Printed On: 8/8/2012 Page 20 of 39 <br />