Denver police ask for grant for fentanyl investigations team

DENVER — The Denver Police Department wants more than half a million dollars for a new fentanyl investigations team. Monday, the city council approved their application for a state grant. 

The task force will look into overdose deaths with the hope of finding the dealers.

The grant program was created under a state law passed in 2022. According to the Colorado Department of Public Safety, lawmakers allocated $7 million for the program. It provides funding for law enforcement agencies to investigate deaths caused by synthetic opiates.