Target grant awarded to Police Services for its PALS
Aliso Viejo Police Services has been awarded a $1,000 grant from Target through a program designed to assist law enforcement agencies.
The grant money will help the department purchase a laptop for its newly established Aliso Viejo Police Assistance Liaison Services (PALS) program. The volunteer program, which began earlier this year, is designed to assist police services with everything from vacation-home checks, and bicycle and pedestrian safety presentations to Neighborhood and Business Watch Programs and help with special events.
“Police services has been working with Target’s loss-prevention crew and manager for quite some time now, and we have a real solid relationship with them,” said Lt. Rich Paddock, chief of Police Services.
This is the second grant the Aliso Viejo-based Target has awarded police services through its Law Enforcement Grant Program. Target established the program in 1990 to support criminal justice agencies working to make communities safer. Since its inception, the Law Enforcement Grant Program has awarded millions of dollars to local law enforcement.
Paddock said a new laptop for the PALS will help streamline clerical and other tracking duties.
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