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General Information
West Virginia Division of Criminal Justice
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The Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) under the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety is the state of West Virginia's criminal justice planning agency.
DCJS staffs the Governor's Committee on Crime Delinquency and Correction that was created by executive order in August of 1968 to develop a comprehensive, statewide planning capacity for the improvement of the criminal justice system in West Virginia. Our mission is to foster the public safety in West Virginia through providing planning, system coordination, grant administration, training and technical assistance, monitoring, research and statistical services
Vision Statement:
To serve as a catalyst for change for the public safety in West Virginia.
Mission Statement:
The mission of the Division of Criminal Justice Services
is to assist the criminal justice and juvenile justice
agencies and the local government with research and
performance data, planning, funding and management of
programs supported with grant funds, and to provide
oversight of law enforcement training.
Goals:
The purpose of criminal justice planning is to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the criminal justice system's impact on crime through the following goals.
- To facilitate sound policy and procedure development through research, statistical analysis and evaluation.
- To ensure collaboration, cooperation and communication among criminal justice system organizations (federal, state and local) and the public.
- To acquire criminal justice resources and coordinate the allocation of these resources.
- To provide prevention and intervention resources that facilitate the development of a confident, competent and caring population.
- To provide training and technical assistance that will ensure criminal justice system personnel are well informed, prepared and professional.
- To monitor state jails and correctional facilities for compliance with federal and state law concerning the incarceration of juveniles.
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