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Clerk 06/30/2006
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the county executive to enter into an interlocal agreement with the cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Issaquah, Mercer Island and Redmond allowing the sheriff's office to participate in the joint Eastside Narcotics Task Force.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County and the municipalities within the Puget Sound area have experienced ongoing significant drug abuse crimes.
2. The ability to address drug abuse and the crimes committed relating to the sale and abuse of drugs has stretched the resources of individual police department specialty units.
3. The cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Issaquah, Mercer Island and Redmond have been members of the Eastside Narcotics Task Force ("ENTF") since 1981.
4. The ENTF allows the northeast region of King County to pool resources and increase law enforcement efforts well beyond that of a single jurisdiction within King County.
5. The King County sheriff's office currently provides one detective to the ENTF.
6. The ENTF has asked the King County sheriff's office to continue to participate in the ENTF.
7. The county has the resources to participate in this task force.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The county executive is authorized to execute an agreement, substantially in the form attached to this ordinance, with Bellevue, Kirkland, Issaquah,
Mercer Island and Redmond for King County to participate in the Eastside Narcotics Task Force.