State Police

State Police.

State Appropriations

8100-0000

For the administration and operation of the department of state police; provided, that the department shall maintain the division of field services which shall include, but not be limited to, the bureau of metropolitan district operations; provided further, that not less than 40 officers shall be provided to the Metropolitan District Commission division of watershed management for the purpose of patrolling the watershed property of the commission; provided further, that not less than five officers shall be provided to the disabled persons protection commission for the purpose of investigating cases of criminal abuse; provided further, that the department shall enter into an interagency agreement with the Metropolitan District Commission to provide police coverage on commission properties and parkways; provided further, that of the total amount appropriated herein, $331,000 shall be allocated to the division of human resources through an interagency agreement for the purposes of conducting an open competitive examination for recruits; provided further, that $75,000 shall be expended on an apparatus to be operated by Troop C; provided further, that no less than $15,000 shall be placed in a reserve fund to reimburse the city of Springfield arson and bomb squad for services performed at the request of the department of state police; provided further, that the department shall train as many uniformed members of the state police as necessary to attain and maintain a complement of not less than six explosives technicians; and provided further, that the creation of a new or the expansion of the existing statewide communications network shall include the division of environmental law enforcement of the department of fisheries, wildlife, and environmental law enforcement at no cost to, or compensation from, said division

......................................................$112,071,294

Highway Fund .................. 88.2%

Local Aid Fund .................. 9.5%

General Fund .................. 2.3%

8100-0001

For the purchase of state police cruisers

......................................................$5,000,000

Highway Fund .................. 100.0%

8100-0006

For private police details; provided, that the department is hereby authorized to expend up to $12,150,000 in revenues collected from fees charged for private police details, and the costs of administering said details; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department of state police is hereby authorized to incur, and the comptroller may certify for payment, expenses and liabilities during fiscal year 1998 to be charged to this item in an amount not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate therefor as reported in the state accounting system for the purposes stated herein to accommodate the delayed receipt of revenues authorized to be retained in this item during fiscal year 1998

......................................................$12,150,000

8100-0007

For overtime of state police officers; provided, that not more than $290,533 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Suffolk district; provided further, that not more than $407,123 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the northern district; provided further, that not more than $387,660 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the eastern district; provided further, that not more than $312,454 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the middle district; provided further, that not more than $244,115 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Hampden district; provided further, that not more than $142,171 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the northwestern district; provided further, that not more than $354,080 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Norfolk district; provided further, that not more than $269,240 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Plymouth district; provided further, that not more than $174,998 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Bristol district; provided further, that not more than $208,611 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Cape and Islands district; provided further, that not more than $78,448 shall be expended at the direction of the district attorney for the Berkshire district; provided further, that not more than $493,294 shall be expended at the direction of the office of the attorney general; provided further, that the balance of this appropriation may be expended for the overtime costs incurred by the department of state police; and provided further, that the state police shall provide monthly reports to each district attorney's office delineating the amount of overtime hours used, the cost of said overtime, the amount of overtime dollars spent to date and the amount of available overtime dollars for said district attorney's office

......................................................$11,871,898

Highway Fund .................. 88.2%

Local Aid Fund .................. 9.5%

General Fund .................. 2.3%

8100-0009

For the career incentive salary increases for the state police officers known as the Quinn bill, so-called

......................................................$14,540,903

Highway Fund .................. 100.0%

8100-0011

The department of state police is hereby authorized to expend an amount not to exceed $1,150,000 for certain police activities provided pursuant to agreements authorized in this item; provided, that for fiscal year 1998, the colonel of the state police is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with the commanding officer or other person in charge of a military reservation of the United States located in the commonwealth or the Land Bank, established in chapter 212 of the acts of 1975 to provide certain services; provided further, that said agreements shall fix the responsibilities pertaining to the operation and maintenance of said police services, including but not limited to: (1) provisions governing payment to the department for the cost of regular salaries, overtime, retirement, and other employee benefits; and (2) provisions governing payment to the department for the cost of furnishings and equipment necessary to provide such police services; provided, further, that the department is authorized to charge any of the recipients of police services for the services, as authorized by this item; provided further, that the department is authorized to retain the revenue so received and expend such revenue as necessary pursuant to this item to provide the agreed level of services; and provided further, that notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, for the purposes of accommodating discrepancies between the receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payments amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue

......................................................$1,150,000

Highway Fund .................. 100.0%

8100-0100

For the administration and operation of the crime laboratory; provided, that the secretary of public safety is directed to maintain the satellite western Massachusetts crime laboratory located at the Agawam criminal justice training council; and provided further, that the secretary of public safety is directed to provide a criminalist who will be situated at said crime laboratory located in Agawam

......................................................$1,878,812

Highway Fund .................. 88.2%

Local Aid Fund .................. 9.5%

General Fund .................. 2.3%

8100-0150

For the administration and operation of an automated fingerprint identification system

......................................................$437,688

Highway Fund .................. 88.2%

Local Aid Fund .................. 9.5%

General Fund .................. 2.3%

8100-0200

For the administration and operation of a motor carrier safety assistance program

......................................................$450,061

Highway Fund .................. 100.0%

8100-0201

The department of state police is hereby authorized and directed to expend up to $1,050,000 from reimbursements received from the motor carrier safety assistance program for the costs of said program, including personnel

......................................................$1,050,000

8100-0300

For the administration and operation of a drug enforcement administration task force

......................................................$73,720

Highway Fund .................. 85.0%

General Fund .................. 15.0%

8100-9999

For the payment of charges assessed to the department of state police for the payment of workers compensation, unemployment insurance, medicare taxes, health security plan, and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback, so-called; provided that, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, prior to April 15, 1998 all funds appropriated herein shall be scheduled in the DD subsidiary, so-called; provided further, that after said date, the commissioner of the department of state police, with the approval of the secretary of administration and finance, is hereby authorized to transfer from said DD subsidiary to the KK subsidiary, so-called; or the NN subsidiary, so-called; of this account, an amount not to exceed 15 per cent of the funds appropriated herein, if the secretary of administration and finance certifies in writing to the house and senate committees on ways and means that the following conditions have been met: (1) that the charges owed by the department for workers compensation, unemployment insurance, medicare taxes, health security plan, and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback are less than the amount appropriated herein; (2) that the department does not require any supplemental appropriation in any of its other items of appropriation; (3) that the department is expected to meet the revenue targets established in sections 1A and 1B; and (4) that the department has not expended any funds for the payment of workers compensation, unemployment insurance, medicare taxes, health security plan, and the group insurance commission extended leave chargeback, so-called, in any of its other items of appropriation; provided further, that the secretary of administration and finance shall notify the house and senate committees on ways and means of all transfers of funds between subsidiaries as authorized herein; and provided further, that no funds shall be scheduled to any subsidiary in this account which is not explicitly referenced herein

......................................................$1,941,353

Highway Fund .................. 88.2%

Local Aid Fund .................. 9.5%

General Fund .................. 2.3%

Federal Appropriations

8100-0058

For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Cops Ahead Community Policing

......................................................$1,836,129

8100-0059

For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Cops More

......................................................$225,000

8100-2058

For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, N.E.S.P.A.C. - Regional Investigation

......................................................$1,520,249

8100-9706

For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Cannabis Eradicate/Controlled Substance Prosecution DEA Agreement 21

......................................................$57,000

8100-9707

For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Community Policing to Combat Domestic Violence

......................................................$196,070

8100-9709

For the purposes of a federally funded grant entitled, Drug Fire Program

......................................................$77,070