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 Newnan was awarded a $500,000 grant under the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program (CFDA 16.710) to increase the city's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will fund the hiring and/or rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers over a 5-year period ending on September 30, 2029. The anticipated outcomes of this COPS Hiring Program award include enhanced engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity for the city's law enforcement agency to engage in 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.