RIVERSIDE - Riverside County supervisors today authorized the disbursal of more than $1 million in state and federal grants to the sheriff's department in support of operations targeting drug dealers, domestic abusers and human traffickers.

A total of three grants were awarded for use in the current and next fiscal years.

The largest award -- $617,474 -- originated from the U.S. Office of Drug Control Policy's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program.

The money will be used to fund operations carried out by three regional task forces, mainly for crackdowns Advertisement

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The California Emergency Management Agency awarded two grants -- one in the amount of $207,122, and another totaling $200,000.

The first grant was furnished under the Law Enforcement Specialized Units Program and will be dedicated to domestic violence response and investigation in the southwest part of the county, according to the sheriff's department.

The second award came from the state's Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force Program and will be used to identify victims of human trafficking, many of whom are children and foreign nationals.