FY21 cops hiring program (CHP)

The City of Fort Pierce, Florida was awarded a $1.25 million project grant from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services program to support community policing efforts from October 2021 through September 2026. The funding will support the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program, which aims to enhance public safety by assisting law enforcement agencies in building partnerships with individuals and community organizations to identify and address local public safety problems through organizational transformation and systematic problem solving processes. Key activities to be undertaken by the City of Fort Pierce include collaborative community partnerships, alignment of police operations and management structures to support community partnerships and proactive problem solving, and engagement in processes to identify, research, develop responses to, and evaluate solutions for priority public safety issues.