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 $375,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program (CFDA 16.710 - Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants) is intended to enhance the community policing capacity of the City of North Augusta, South Carolina. The primary goals of the award are to increase officer engagement in planned community partnerships, implement projects to analyze and assess problems, make changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and expand the agency's overall capacity for community policing activities. The performance period for this grant runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029.

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.