The grant will be used to add 20 officers to the city's 524-member department.

The police force has added four new officers, bringing its total to 35.

The city had hoped to add 1,230 officers by July to increase the force to 41,440.

The state police force was expanded to add fifty new officers, making it the largest in the nation at the time.

At that point the department added five new officers.

The city's police had added 19 officers since 2003 and expanded its street crime unit.

He hopes to add 10 officers to the force in each of the next four years.

But not everyone here believes that adding 100 more officers is the solution.

Washington paid $1.5 million and the city $750,000 to add 14 officers to the 200-member police force for three years.

In the past two years he has added 250 officers, bringing the force to more than 1,000.