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 Youngstown received a $1,612,170 Project Grant award under the Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) to enhance the Youngstown Police Department's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The anticipated outcomes of this 5-year grant include the Youngstown Police Department engaging in planned community partnerships, implementing projects to analyze and assess problems, making changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increasing the department's capacity to conduct community policing activities. This grant award is part of the COPS Hiring Program, which provides funding to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers.

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.