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 Carterville received a $118,633 Project Grant award on October 1, 2024 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. This funding is intended to enhance the city's law enforcement capacity and community policing strategies. Key anticipated outcomes include increased community engagement, implementation of projects to analyze and assess public safety issues, changes to personnel and agency management to support community policing, and expanded agency capacity for community policing activities. The grant will support the city's efforts to develop collaborative partnerships between law enforcement and community stakeholders, improve officer de-escalation and crisis response capabilities, and implement innovative approaches to crime prevention.

Additionally, the City of Carterville has previously received sub-awards from the Missouri Department of Economic Development and Missouri Department of Public Safety to support critical infrastructure projects such as street repairs, stormwater management, water pump replacement, and emergency preparedness through a FEMA generator project. These sub-grant awards, totaling several hundred thousand dollars, demonstrate Carterville's strategic use of federal and state grant funding to address municipal needs across infrastructure, public safety, and utility systems.

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.