The council, the Department of Public Safety, the criminal justice division of the governor’s office, and the Department of Information Resources cooperatively shall develop and adopt a grant program, to be implemented by the criminal justice division at a time and in a manner determined by the division, to aid local law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and court personnel in obtaining equipment and training necessary to operate a telecommunications network capable of:
(1) making inquiries to and receiving responses from the statewide automated fingerprint identification system and from the computerized criminal history system; and
(2) transmitting information to those systems.