This will put the police department to a test to see if they can keep up with the work the North Missouri Drug Task Force usually handles.

Cuts to the program that helps local police departments keep drugs off the street may make drug contol a lot harder. Sergeant Michael Hollis of the Moberly Police Department thinks his job may become more challenging.

"Anytime you reduce the number of people working together to solve an issue such as a drug problem, obviously that places more of responsibility on the other people working," Hollis said.

Funding for the Byrne/Justice Grant Program last year was $520 million. This year a request was made to increase funding to $660 million, but instead, funding was slashed to just about $170 million. Randolph County Sheriff Marc Nichols says there will be a negative impact on the community.

"The police departments and sheriffs will try to pick up all the investigations they can, but they will probably only get the users versus the dealers," Nichols explained.

Moberly Police Department is only one agency that will suffer with the funding cuts. The entire country will see cuts because the grant program funds drug task forces nationwide. Hollis says the department will pull together.

"We're going to do the best we can to increase our patrols of certain areas and interact with the public and ask for their support to combat some of the issues," Hollis said.

11 counties get drug enforcement help from the North Missouri Drug Task Force. Several lawmakers have signed a letter addressed to the appropriations chairman Senator Robert Byrd, but there is no word yet on any emergency funding act in the works.