The cops hiring program (CHP) provides funding to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity…

The City of Buchanan was awarded a $125,000 grant under the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to enhance the city's law enforcement capacity and support community policing efforts. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will fund the hiring and/or rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers over a 5-year period ending on September 30, 2029. The anticipated outcomes of this award include increased community engagement, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, changes to personnel and agency management to support community policing, and greater capacity for the city's law enforcement agency to participate in community policing activities.

The cops hiring program (CHP) provides funding to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes of CHP awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of agency to engage in community policing activities.