A bill to provide Federal citizen anticrime patrol assistance grants to residents' organizations.
Citizen Anticrime Patrol Assistance Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to make citizen anticrime patrol assistance grants to residents' organizations which have demonstrated a need for assistance. Requires such organizations to submit to the Administration a written plan to provide one or more of the following services: (1) roving or stationary anticrime patrols; (2) escorts for persons leaving or returning to their places of residence, particularly during nondaylight hours; and (3) rapid warning and reporting of criminal or suspicious activities to law enforcement authorities and, where appropriate, to other residents. Requires that such plan include a program for educating, equipping, and training the members of such organization.
Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977 through 1979 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
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