2017/10/04 Council Agenda Packet

1.0 TASK FORCE CONTINTUATION, TERM,AND PURPOSE 1.1 The countywide multi jurisdictional task force, composed of law enforcement, prosecutor, and support personnel, known as the Snohomish Regional Drug & Gang Task Force (hereinafter "Task Force"), was created pursuant to the Interlocal Agreement Among Participating Jurisdictions dated January 18, 1988. The Task Force has operated on a continuous basis since that time under a series of interlocal agreements, the most recent effective from July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016. This Agreement shall serve to continue the operation of the Task Force. 1.2 The term of this Agreement shall be from July 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017,unless earlier terminated or modified as provided in this Agreement. 1.3 The purpose of the Task Force is to formally structure and jointly coordinate selected law enforcement activities,resources, and functions in order to disrupt illegal drug trafficking systems and to remove traffickers through a cooperative program of investigation, prosecution, and asset forfeiture. The parties do not intend that this Agreement create a separate Iegal entity subject to suit. 1.4 The Task Force agrees to perform the statement of work indicated in the Task Force Abstract set forth in the application for funding between Commerce and Snohomish County. Therefore each Participating Jurisdiction adopts the following Task Force goals: • Reduce the number of drug traffickers and gang members in the communities of Snohomish County through the professional investigation,apprehension and conviction. • Efficiently attack, disrupt and prosecute individual and organized mid to upper level drug traffickers and street gang members who do not recognize jurisdictional boundaries or limitations, and by doing so, impact drug trafficking organizations previously impregnable. Interlocal Agreement Establishing Snohomish Regional Drug&Gang Task Force—Page 3 89