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...training schools and programs or courses of instruction;
12. Approve institutions, curricula and facilities, whether located in or outside the Commonwealth,
for school operation for the specific purpose of training law-enforcement officers; but this shall not
prevent the holding of any such school whether approved or not;
13. Establish and maintain police training programs through such agencies and institutions as the
Board deems appropriate;
14. Establish compulsory minimum qualifications of certification and recertification for instructors in
criminal justice training schools approved by the Department;
15. Conduct and stimulate research by public and private agencies which shall be designed to
improve police administration and law enforcement;
16. Make recommendations concerning any matter within its purview pursuant to this chapter;
17. Coordinate its activities with those of any interstate system for the exchange of criminal history
record information, nominate one or more of its members to serve upon the council or committee of any
such system, and participate when and as deemed appropriate in any such system's activities and
programs;
18. Conduct inquiries and investigations it deems appropriate to carry out its functions under this
chapter and, in conducting such inquiries and investigations, may require any criminal justice agency to
submit information, reports, and statistical data with respect to its policy and operation of information
systems or with respect to its collection, storage, dissemination, and usage of criminal history record
information and correctional status information, and such criminal justice agencies shall submit such
information, reports, and data as are reasonably required;
19. Conduct audits as required by § 9.1-131;
20. Conduct a continuing study and review of questions of individual privacy and confidentiality of
criminal history record information and correctional status information;
21. Advise criminal justice agencies and initiate educational programs for such agencies with respect
to matters of privacy, confidentiality, and security as they pertain to criminal history record information
and correctional status information;
22. Maintain a liaison with any board, commission, committee, or other body which may be
established by law, executive order, or resolution to regulate the privacy and security of information
collected by the Commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof;
23. Adopt regulations establishing guidelines and standards for the collection, storage, and
dissemination of criminal history record information and correctional status information, and the privacy,
confidentiality, and security thereof necessary to implement state and federal statutes, regulations, and
court orders;
24. Operate a statewide criminal justice research center, which shall maintain an integrated criminal
justice information system, produce reports, provide technical assistance to state and local criminal
justice data system users, and provide analysis and interpretation of criminal justice statistical
information;
25. Develop a comprehensive, statewide, long-range plan for strengthening and improving law
enforcement and the administration of criminal justice throughout the Commonwealth, and periodically
update that plan;
26. Cooperate with, and advise and assist, all agencies, departments, boards and institutions of the
Commonwealth, and units of general local government, or combinations thereof, including planning
district commissions, in planning, developing, and administering programs, projects, comprehensive
plans, and other activities for improving law enforcement and the administration of criminal justice
throughout the Commonwealth, including allocating and subgranting funds for these purposes;
27. Define, develop, organize, encourage, conduct, coordinate, and administer programs, projects and
activities for the Commonwealth and units of general local government, or combinations thereof, in the
Commonwealth, designed to strengthen and improve law enforcement and the administration of criminal
justice at every level throughout the Commonwealth;
28. Review and evaluate programs, projects, and activities, and recommend, where necessary,
revisions or alterations to such programs, projects, and activities for the purpose of improving law
enforcement and the administration of criminal justice;
29. Coordinate the activities and projects of the state departments, agencies, and boards of the
Commonwealth and of the units of general local government, or combination thereof, including planning
district commissions, relating to the preparation, adoption, administration, and implementation of
comprehensive plans to strengthen and improve law enforcement and the administration of criminal
justice;
30. Do all things necessary on behalf of the Commonwealth and its units of general local
government, to determine and secure benefits available under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
Streets Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-351, 82 Stat. 197), as amended, and under any other federal acts and
programs for strengthening and improving law enforcement, the administration of criminal justice, and
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