A special laptop program assigned to the New York police is part of a new $900,000 project to combat the high rate of domestic violence in Upper Manhattan.

With this new technology, the police will be able to access a database of suspects and people with criminal records, in addition to connecting with the district attorney’s office and community groups that offer protection and help victims or people at risk.

The Criminal Justice Services Project for Domestic Violence, subsidized with federal funds from the Department of Justice, looks to aid victims before an arrest is made against the perpetrators of the violence.

The relevance of this is based on figures from the city’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence, which discovered that in 2005, 66 percent of the cases that culminated in homicide did not have prior contact with the police.

In addition, according to Audrey Moore of the Domestic Violence Unit of the District Attorney’s Office, many of the cases involving undocumented immigrants are not reported because of ignorance about the existence of “U Visas” that protects victims and avoids deportation.

Upper Manhattan was chosen for the project’s application “because of the 4,500 cases of domestic violence reported annually, approximately two thirds (3,000) occurs above 96th Street, explained District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer indicated that the funds will also be used to improve the collaboration of the police with the district attorney’s office and the organizations Connect and Harlem Legal Services, groups that provide help to victims in that area and feature a bilingual staff.

The services will be offered to the communities of police headquarters 25, 28, 33 and 34 located in the sectors of Washington Heights, Inwood, East and Central Harlem.