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How to secure funding for a real time crime center

At this year’s NRTCCA conference, Lexipol’s Samantha Dorm detailed how law enforcement can leverage grants to build and sustain real-time crime centers

By Police1 Staff

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — During the National Real Time Crime Center Association (NRTCCA) conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., Samantha Dorm, senior grant consultant for Lexipol, discussed how law enforcement agencies can use grants to help fund a real time crime center (RTCC).

In this video, Dorm breaks down learning points agencies can take away from her presentation.

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