Robin Carnahan: “Those funds will go a long way to enabling Missouri's hard-working law enforcement officers to combat this epidemic. I…”

“Those funds will go a long way to enabling Missouri's hard-working law enforcement officers to combat this epidemic. I would like to spell out exactly how these funds will be distributed in order to maximize their effectiveness: $105,000 will go to the Southwest Missouri Drug Task Force to implement a coordinated, cooperative enforcement effort to reduce, disrupt, and dismantle the narcotics trade in a four county area. $110,000 will be for the Southeast Missouri Drug Task Force to target manufacturing, importation, and distribution and related violent crime in Southwest Missouri. $100,000 will enable the Northeast Missouri Narcotics Task Force to provide drug enforcement and assistance to city, county, state, and federal authorities that operate within the region. $120,000 will be for the Joplin Crime Lab for new equipment and staff salaries to analyze and assist law enforcement in fighting methamphetamine and other illegal drugs. $110,000 will provide the Southeast Missouri State University Crime Lab in Cape Girardeau with funding to assist with relocation into a new building on SEMO's campus and funding for new equipment to analyze and assist law enforcement in fighting methamphetamine and other illegal drugs. $110,000 will help the North Central Missouri Drug Task Force to implement a coordinated, cooperative enforcement effort to reduce, disrupt, and dismantle the narcotics trade in a seven county area.”