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 was awarded on October 1, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The grant funding will support the Hardee County Sheriff's Office in Wauchula, Florida to hire and/or rehire additional law enforcement officers. This is intended to increase the department's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Key anticipated outcomes include the department's engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, changes to personnel and agency management to support community policing, and an increased capacity to conduct community policing activities.

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.