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- Subject: Crime summit in Kansas
- Summary: Press release from U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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- Press release from Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Crime Summit Held in Kansas
- To: National Desk
- Contact: Federal Bureau of Investigation Press Office,
- 202-324-3000
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- WASHINGTON, July 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, Attorney General
- William P. Barr, FBI Director William S. Sessions, and Kansas
- U.S. Attorney Lee Thompson joined U.S. Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.)
- in Topeka, Kansas, to address the Kansas enforcement, community,
- and youth leaders.
- Director Sessions expressed concern over the rising levels of
- crime both in Kansas and throughout the country. "While primary
- responsibility for community crime enforcement belongs with
- state and local law enforcement, the FBI can and does play a
- substantial role," he said. Violent crimes were designated as an
- FBI priority program in 1989. Recognizing that much more work
- remains to be done, the FBI has made great efforts to revitalize
- relationships within communities through campaigns like Operation
- Safe Streets, a nationwide strategy announced by the FBI and the
- Department of Justice last January. At that time, 300 FBI Special
- Agents were reassigned in selected areas of the country to address
- gang and drug-related violent crime through an increased use of
- combined law enforcement task forces and community outreach
- efforts. The FBI's Kansas City Field Office was one of 39 areas
- selected at that time to receive enhancements.
- Commenting on the FBI's longstanding commitment to provide
- investigative support services to other law enforcement agencies,
- Director Sessions cited the recent consolidation of support
- services into the Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
- "This positive step will more efficiently serve the needs of the
- law enforcement community by enhancing the coordination of data
- collection and processing services, such as fingerprint
- identification, Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), and the National Crime
- Information Center (NCIC)," he said.
- "Meetings such as these present an excellent opportunity to
- emphasize the contribution that federal law enforcement agencies
- can make at the local level. The FBI has long recognized that the
- most effective weapon against crime is cooperation -- a combining of
- the efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and
- understanding of the American people. No police agency is so big
- or so small that it does not need the assistance of another,"
- Director Sessions said.
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