{"id":7472,"date":"2016-01-29T00:11:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T05:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2016-01-29T01:02:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:02:28","slug":"grant-to-provide-more-manpower-in-brick-pd-anti-drug-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/grant-to-provide-more-manpower-in-brick-pd-anti-drug-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Will Provide More Manpower to Brick PD Anti-Drug Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brick Twp. Police car. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Township officials this week approved a resolution authorizing the township to apply for the state\u2019s annual Safe and Secure Communities Grant, state funding the township normally received annually to be applied to a specific law enforcement initiative.<\/p>\n

This year, officials said, the township will use the $60,000 in funding to increase manpower on the Brick police department\u2019s Selective Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cOfficers funded by the grant will be involved with directed patrols in high crime areas to ensure a better quality of life for the citizens of Brick,\u201d a statement issued by the township said.<\/p>\n

The township is focusing a number of resources on anti-drug initiatives as Ocean County continues to battle a heroin abuse crisis. In the coming months, the township will go around to various senior communities with drop boxes to dispose of unused prescription medications. There is already a prescription dropbox available 24 hours a day at the township municipal complex.<\/p>\n

B-Mac, the township municipal alliance against substance abuse, will also be working with real estate agents to urge homeowners selling their houses to remove prescriptions from medicine cabinets before open houses.<\/p>\n

Brick has also received a Governor\u2019s Council grant, in the amount of $39,523, which will be doubled by the township through in-kind contributions of $29,642 and a cash match of $9,881. The combined amount of $79,046 would fund B-Mac for 2016, whose mission is to \u201cprovide substance abuse prevention programs and services for the community,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

B-Mac meetings are held monthly on Mondays at\u00a07 p.m. at town hall in the meeting room across from council chamber, and all are welcome to attend, Councilwoman Andrea Zapcic said.<\/p>\n

A calendar of B-Mac meeting dates can be found on the Township website at\u00a0bricktownship.net\/BMAC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Township officials this week approved a resolution authorizing the township to apply for the state\u2019s annual Safe and Secure Communities Grant, state funding the township normally received annually to be applied to a specific law enforcement initiative. This year, officials said, the township will use the $60,000 in funding to increase manpower on the Brick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[239,24,101],"class_list":["post-7472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-police-fire-courts","tag-b-mac","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-brick-township-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC_0259.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1Ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}