The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

postsentence persons and civilly committed sex offenders will be transferred for treatment. Toaccommodate the CTP mission, the Sex Offender Treatment Program at FCI Butner wastransferred to FMC Devens in 2006.8. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)The Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) hasannounced $11.4 million in grants to support partnerships between state or local governmentagencies and their U.S. Attorney’s and U.S. Marshal's offices that focus on reducing childendangerment. The funds were awarded to 26 state and local agencies under the Child SexualPredator Program and will help officials locate, arrest, and prosecute child sexual predators, aswell as enforce state sex offender registration laws.In addition to the grants, COPS will fund the National Center for Missing & Exploited Childrento provide approximately $600,000 in technical assistance to grant recipients. The technicalassistance will include training on establishing effective anti-child endangerment programs, andon-site guidance for the grant recipients. The COPS Office will also develop a "best practices"publication that documents the experience of the grantees and will benefit other municipalitiesand states that pursue similar anti-child endangerment partnerships.9. Office of International Affairs (OIA)The Office of International Affairs (OIA) serves as the central authority for the United Statesunder more than 50 bilateral mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs) and several multilateralconventions relating to international legal assistance and evidence gathering. OIA also functionsas a central coordinating office for international extradition matters. In its role as centralauthority, OIA handles hundreds of cases involving requests for evidence and fugitives wantedon child exploitation charges in the United States and abroad. OIA supports fugitive retrievalefforts by lending its expertise to extradition cases, assisting in the preparation of extraditionrequests, providing legal advice on extradition matters, and assisting U.S. prosecutors inlitigating extradition proceedings for foreign fugitives who are located in the United States andwho, often, must be removed from an environment in which they pose a continuing threat to U.S.children. OIA also works directly or with Assistant U.S. Attorneys to execute requests fromforeign governments seeking evidence located in the United States to support foreign criminalproceedings. Finally, in administering the MLATs and other conventions, OIA also assists stateand federal prosecutors in the United states to obtain evidence located abroad to support all typesof crimes, including child pornography, child prostitution, child molestation/rape, child sextourism, luring of children using the internet, sexual assaults of minors and trafficking in persons(including minors).10. Office of Legal Policy (OLP)The Office of Legal Policy (OLP) has played an important role in coordinating the Department’sefforts to combat child exploitation, such as by participating in developing the Department’sviews on key pieces of legislation, assisting the SMART Office in drafting regulationsconcerning the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, and drafting regulations56