Pubdate: Wed, 22 May 2002 Source: State, The (SC) Copyright: 2002 The State Contact: http://www.thestate.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/426 Author: Clif LeBlanc 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. - --- MAP posted-by: Alex