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 Community Oriented Policing Program awarded the City of Chester $125,000 on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to support the hiring of career law enforcement officers and increase community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award runs through September 30, 2030, with work performed in Chester, West Virginia. The COPS Hiring Program provides funding to law enforcement agencies to hire and rehire officers in support of planned community partnerships, implementation of problem-analysis projects, personnel and agency management changes aligned with community policing, and expanded agency capacity for community policing activities. Recipients must submit semiannual programmatic performance reports and quarterly Federal Financial Reports, and are subject to monitoring activities including site visits, enhanced office-based reviews, and surveys to verify compliance with nonsupplanting requirements and programmatic and financial award conditions.

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