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…

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) will support the County of Perry, located in New Augusta, Mississippi, in hiring and/or rehiring additional career law enforcement officers. The goal is to increase the county's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Key anticipated outcomes include enhanced community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity for the agency to engage in community policing activities. This federal grant award has a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029.

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.