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 $125,000 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 Buena Vista, GA to enhance law enforcement capacity and community policing efforts. The award has a performance period from October 2024 to September 2029. The anticipated outcomes include increased engagement in community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze problems, changes to personnel and agency management to support community policing, and greater capacity for the agency to carry out community policing activities. This grant award is part of the City of Buena Vista's strategic approach to addressing critical community needs through federal funding, which has also included substantial infrastructure grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service and a Community Development Block Grant sub-award for water system improvements.

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.