PORT ANGELES — The Police Department announced today that it has been awarded a $49,592.00 grant by the U.S. Department of Justice to help continue the downtown resource officer program.
The program — noted for the downtown resource officer, Duane Benedict, scooting about on a Segway electric scooter — was initiated in 2005 in partnership with the Port Angeles Downtown Association.
The downtown resource officer — who now has an office in the newly opened Gateway transit center at Front and Lincoln streets — was originally funded in part by the various downtown stakeholders who contributed annually approximately $23,000 to augment city funding for the position.
