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Department of Community Trade/Economic Development

The Department of Community Trade/Economic Development (CTED) provides Community Mobilization grants for all 39 counties to develop and implement comprehensive strategies to reduce and prevent alcohol, tobacco, other drug abuse, and violence. Federal and state Methamphetamine Initiative funds are provided to local contractors, as well.

Examples of programs include the Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federally funded program designed to reduce violence by linking existing programs that target gun crime. CTED also provides staff support to the Governor’s Council on Substance Abuse to make recommendations to the Governor on statewide goals for substance abuse reduction policies, programs, and research. The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment in State Prisons and Local Jails program provides federal funds to state and local corrections treatment programs to increase the number of inmates having access to substance abuse treatment while incarcerated.

CTED also distributes state funds to hire special prosecutors for targeted efforts to remove high-level drug traffickers, and provides federal grants to improve capacity to conduct forensic investigation and to improve the criminal justice system. CTED funds the state patrol to participate in regional drug interdiction efforts and the Governor’s Council on Substance Abuse.

For example, the Multi-Jurisdictional Narcotics Task Force Program consists of a network of 20 groups of local, state, and, in some cases, federal law enforcement officers, strategically situated throughout Washington State to provide service to 31 of 39 counties. The task forces work cooperatively to identify, deter, disrupt, and dismantle criminal drug-trafficking organizations operating in and through the state, thereby reducing the availability and abuse of controlled substances.

Disrupting the drug market reduces profits and, in general, raises the risks to those who would manufacture, import, and distribute narcotics. Washington State task forces also support federal drug enforcement with a second line of defense against international and interstate drug smuggling.

To learn more about CTED, go to http://www.cted.wa.gov/.