NIJ FY 07 ORE on Cold Cases

This solicitation marks the first step in a planned multi-year effort to build, evaluate, and improve the effectiveness of cold case invest igations by local law enforcement agencies. This effort will identify current practices of police agencies conducting cold case investigations; develop evaluation criteria for assessing the effectiveness of these practices and approaches; construct alte rnative model programs and alternative program elements that agencies of various sizes could implement; and estimate the resource requirements implied by these model programs.