The Long Beach Police Department announced Friday it received a $100,000 grant from the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to assist with reducing “alcohol-related harm” in the city.
“The Alcoholic Policing Partnership program can improve the quality of life in neighborhoods. We’ve seen a real difference in the communities where the grant program’s resources have been invested,” ABC Director Joseph McCullough said in a statement.
The APP grant program has been in place since 1995, focusing on keeping alcoholic beverages away from minors and reducing alcohol-related harm and casualties, officials said.
Police said the grant is one of 50 awarded to local law enforcement agencies across California through ABC’s APP program.
The funds will support efforts to regulate and prevent the sale of alcohol to minors and obviously intoxicated patrons at bars and other establishments, and to combat illegal alcohol solicitation and other criminal activities, including the sale and possession of illegal drugs, police said.
“This is important to the Long Beach Police Department in order to increase protection for youth and to address crime at problem locations,” LBPD Cmdr. Scott Jenson said.