Las Vegas Metro Police Department partners with ICE

LAS VEGAS - Beginning this month, 10 officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) will be screening criminal aliens booked into the Clark County Detention Center for possible follow-up immigration enforcement as part of a partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the 287(g) program.

The LVMPD officers recently completed four weeks of intensive training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Charleston, S.C., and are now authorized to enforce federal immigration law in accordance with section 287(g) of the Immigration and National Act and a Memorandum of Agreement with ICE. The training covered immigration law, intercultural relations, civil rights and access to federal law enforcement databases in order to identify criminals and immigration violators. The agreement will enable officers to determine the immigration status of those processed through the county jails and to initiate removal proceedings for those found to be in the country illegally.

"The bottom line is that we have some very serious crime issues to deal with in Las Vegas - gang violence, human trafficking, narcotics smuggling and money laundering - to name a few," said LVMPD Sheriff Douglas Gillespie. "Our partnership with ICE is one of many methods we are going to use to decrease these unacceptable activities. As a law enforcement agency, we must do everything we can to protect our citizens from habitual criminals."

LVMPD is the first law enforcement agency in Nevada to partner with ICE under the 287(g) program.

 

link to full story:http://www.ice.gov/.../nr/0810/081015lasvegas.htm