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to the budget clearance memorandum enclosed in your award package. URI number- (Originating Agency Identifier) This number is assigned by the FBI and it is your agency's identifier. The fust two letters are your state abbreviation, the next three numbers are your county's code, and the final two numbers identify your jurisdiction within your county. It can be found on your grant award document.. When you contact the COPS Office with a question, you can use the ORI number or your grant number and we will be able to assist you. The Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Act of .1994 The COPS Office is specifically charged with fulfilling the mandates of this Law. The purposes of the law are to: • Substantially increase the number of law enforcement officers interacting with members of the community • ' Provide additional and more effective training to law enforcement officers to enhance their problem solving, service and other skills needed in interacting with members of the community; • Encourage the development and implementation of innovative programs to permit members of the community to assist law enforcement agencies in the prevention of crime; and; • Encourage the development of new technologies to assist Iaw enforcement agencies in reorienting the emphasis of their activities from reacting to crime to preventing crime. Supplanting - For the purpose of your COPS grant, supplanting means replacing state or local fiends which otherwise would have been spent on law enforcement purposes with Federal COPS funds. You are prohibited from supplanting throughout the three year grant period, which means that you may not use COPS funds to pay for any sworn officers (full-time, part-time, reserve, or other paid officer positions) who otherwise would have been employed with state or local funds regardless of the COPS program. COPS funds must instead be used to supplement your law enforcement budget. As a general matter, in assessing the presence of supplanting, throughout the grant period we will expect you to hire new officers at a level consistent with recent historical practice and to take positive steps to fill all vacancies in your swgrn personnel resulting from attrition. For fiirther information, please contact the COPS Office Legal Division at 202-514- 3750. Ven number- (EIN number) This is your agency's nine -digit Federal tax identification number. Your accounting/bookkeeping department should have this number. 5