The FY25 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…

The Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) awarded $2.5 million to Citrus County Sheriff's Office under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2030. The award funds hiring of additional career law enforcement officers to expand the Sheriff's Office's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Work is performed in Inverness, Florida. The COPS Hiring Program provides five-year awards to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies to advance community policing by increasing staffing dedicated to community engagement, problem analysis and assessment, personnel and agency management changes in support of community policing, and planned community partnerships.

The FY25 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