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 provide funding to the City of Tyler, Texas and its Tyler Police Department to enhance their community policing capabilities and crime prevention efforts. The anticipated outcomes of this award include the implementation of projects to analyze and assess community problems, changes to personnel and agency management to support community policing, and increased capacity for the Tyler Police Department to engage in community policing activities. Specifically, this funding will enable the Tyler Police Department to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in order to increase their community policing capacity and engagement in planned community partnerships.

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.