LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES GET GRANTS

About a dozen state and local law enforcement agencies have received $1.7
million in federal grants to help fight trouble in schools, domestic
violence and even terrorism.

The money from the U.S. Justice Department ranges from $15,000 for
equipment for the Richland County ambulance service to $475,000 for the
Lexington County Sheriff's Department to use on a drug lab and a countywide
narcotics task force.

Here's a list of the rest of the grants, announced Monday by Gov. Jim Hodges:

. About $359,000 for the state Corrections Department to use on a
centralized jail information system and to help fight drugs in prison;

. About $332,000 for the state Public Safety Department to use for advance
drug-enforcement training, drug-detection dogs and its terrorism response unit;

. About $149,000 for the State Law Enforcement Division's high-tech crime unit;

. About $110,000 for the Richland County Sheriff's Department to expand its
forensic lab;

. About $47,000 for the Elgin Police Department for school resource officers;

. About $40,100 for the Irmo Police Department for its anti-drug program;

. About $39,000 for the state Department of Natural Resources to improve
its criminal justice database;

. About $39,000 for the Lexington Police Department for a child and elderly
abuse and domestic violence detective;

. About $20,500 for the West Columbia Police Department to use for
responding to terrorism;

. About $16,100 for the Springdale Police Department's records management
system.