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Greenville NC Police Chief seeks Crime Prevention Program Relaunch
 
 
William Anderson
Greenville's police chief wants to relaunch a crime prevention program that was canceled five years ago.
Police Chief William Anderson will seek City Council permission to hire a consultant to prepare an application to become a Weed and Seed site. Funded through the U.S. Department of Justice, Weed and Seed works by encouraging communities to reduce crime through prevention and then revitalize communities.
Anderson is scheduled to make his presentation Monday when the City Council meets at 6 p.m. in its chambers on the third floor of City Hall, 200 W. Fifth St.
The city of Greenville operated a Weed and Seed program from 1997 until it lost federal certification and funding in 2002. The city briefly continued funding the project until 2003 when an attempt to secure a new grant failed.
"We've met with representatives of the U.S. Attorney's office to talk to them about the old grant and if the past would have any impact on the new grant and they assured us it would not," Anderson said.
The Justice Department decided to end funding when an October 2001 review revealed the Greenville program failed to spend thousands of dollars in federal grant money allotted ... more

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