From the Garden City Police Department

Officers of the Garden City Police Department received new ballistic body armor with the assistance of a federal grant through the Department of Justice Bullet Proof Vest Partnership. 

The program is a matching funds grant providing up to 50% funding to replace expired body armor. 

Since 1999, the BVP program has awarded more that 13,000 jurisdictions a total of $430 million in federal funds for purchase of over one million (1,294,837) as of July 2017