Community Oriented Policing Program

The Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program is a civilian agency within the DOJ that funds community policing and law enforcement grant programs at state, local, territorial, and Tribal jurisdictions. The COPS Office advances the practice of community policing nationwide through grants supporting law enforcement agencies' operational and innovation activities.

The agency operates on two distinct transaction streams. On the contract side, the COPS Office has awarded 143 contracts totaling $171.2 million combined potential value since 2008, with $120.6 million obligated. Recent contract activity has declined: 7 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 8 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 1 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent recorded award date is October 1, 2026. Prime-contractor concentration is moderately concentrated by award count, with the top five vendors accounting for 53 percent of recent awards: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority leads with 5 awards ($95 thousand potential value), followed by Enterprise Technology Solutions, Inc. and Federal Express Corporation at 4 awards each ($59 thousand and $80 thousand respectively), Sidem LLC at 3 awards ($4.5 million), and Minburn Technology Group, LLC at 2 awards ($21 thousand). By potential value, concentration is fragmented at 33 percent coverage among the top five — ITC Federal, LLC dominates the value stream with a single $22.6 million award, followed by Tekpro Support Services, LLC ($13 million on one award) and VSE Corporation ($12.5 million on one award). Seventy-eight percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; 10 percent are 8(a) sole-source awards, 9 percent are small-business set-asides, and 2 percent are service-disabled veteran-owned small business awards. Notable among recent contract activity is the incidence of awards with low or unreported dollar values (contracts through Federal Express Corporation and Enterprise Technology Solutions, Inc. suggest Schedule task orders or other below-threshold transacting).

Grant activity is substantially larger: the agency has awarded 29,739 grants totaling $7.97 billion in federal dollars obligated since 1994, with a combined federal and non-federal total of $8.27 billion. Recent grant cadence holds steady: 638 awards in 2021, 988 in 2022, 878 in 2023, 965 in 2024, and 679 in 2025. The most recent grant award closed October 1, 2025. Grant recipients are highly fragmented — the top five recipients by award count and federal dollars combined account for only 1 percent of both recent awards and recent federal dollars obligated. City of Chicago leads by dollar value with 8 awards totaling $25.7 million federal dollars, followed by City of Houston (8 awards, $19.7 million federal dollars) and International Association of Chiefs of Police (12 awards, $15.2 million federal dollars). Across 5,984 distinct recipients, 98 percent of awards are Project Grants and 2 percent are Cooperative Agreements, with a negligible number of Formula Grants.

Among open grant opportunities, the FY 2026 COPS Office-NHTSA Impaired Driving Curricula Invitational Program (Cooperative Agreement, posted July 24, 2026, closed August 31, 2026) funded updates and enhancements to impaired driving curricula for law enforcement. Eligible applicants include 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3) nonprofits, small businesses, and other entities.

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services advances the practice of community policing through sharing information and making grants to police departments in the United States.