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The Baltimore Police Department received a $500,000 Project Grant award under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The grant will fund the integration of key de-escalation concepts from programs such as Integrating Communications Assessment and Tactics (ICAT), Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement (ABLE), and Insight Policing Conflict Resolution for Law...

The Village of University Park was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant on October 1, 2024, under the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The grant aims to help the Village of University Park hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts over a five-year period from October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2029. Anticipated outcomes of this award...

The Maine Department of Public Safety was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The funding will be used to update the 720-hour Basic Law Enforcement Training Program (BLETP) required for all full-time law enforcement officers in Maine. The project involves conducting a job task analysis of the approximately 2,500-2,900 full-time...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) Police and Public Safety Department received a $350,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The funding will be used to purchase a virtual training system to provide immersive, scenario-based training for UMMC police officers. This initiative will also support continuing education...

The Southern University and A&M College Police Department (SUPD) was awarded a $350,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The funding will be used to expand SUPD's Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program by incorporating the university's faculty, staff, and students into a multi-disciplinary CIT team. This initiative aims to utilize...

The National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI), in partnership with CIT International, Inc., has been awarded a $800,000 Cooperative Agreement under the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). This funding will be used to establish the Mid-Atlantic Regional De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training Center (MARC) and deliver a comprehensive regional training initiative focused on de-escalation techniques, particularly for...

The Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The funding will be used over two years, from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, to enhance the existing curriculum for law enforcement officers in Utah, with a focus on officer wellness and mental health. The project aims to develop a comprehensive program during the post-academy training to...

The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) received a $1,325,889 project grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the NIJ Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560). The grant will fund a mixed-methods evaluation of police-focused Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (PF-BJJ) training as implemented agency-wide for sworn officers at the Colorado Springs Police Department. The evaluation will assess the impact of PF-BJJ training on key use of force outcomes,...

The City of Baltimore received a $199,900 project grant award from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office to upgrade its law enforcement training simulator system. The grant, awarded under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program, will provide funding to replace and modernize the city's existing training simulator used for de-escalation instruction of police recruits and in-service officers. Upgrading the aged simulator equipment...

The City of Tallahassee was awarded a $350,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants (CFDA 16.710) program. The grant funding will be used to integrate virtual reality (VR) technology into the training program for the Tallahassee Police Department. This will allow officers to experience a wider range of scenario-based interactions and gain the ability to replay...