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 $500,000 Project Grant award under the Department of Justice's Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) was provided to the Town of Boone, North Carolina to enhance the town's law enforcement personnel and community policing capacity. The anticipated outcomes of this 5-year award include increased engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess public safety issues, changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and greater capacity for the town's police department to carry out community policing activities. This grant award is part of the town's broader strategic approach to using federal funding to improve municipal services, with a focus on law enforcement innovation, community mental health support, and infrastructure development.

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.