BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police Chief T.J. Morse has asked the Baton Rouge Metro Council to approve an agreement between his department and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to secure north of $1 million in funding for renovations at BRPD Headquarters, including an added space for the federal agency.

Morse outlined the proposed cooperative endeavor agreement in a letter to the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Council.

According to Morse, DHS would give BRPD $1,157,000 to renovate "approximately 9,000 square feet of office space" at BRPD Headquarters.

The agreement requires that, as part of the renovations, BRPD add a space for a new multi-agency Homeland Security Task Force to operate out of.

According to Morse's letter, the federal task force would work with local and state law enforcement to target "violent crime and group violence."

The agreement is on Wednesday's Metro Council meeting agenda.