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 awarded $125,000 to the City of Wheat Ridge on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to fund the hiring of career law enforcement officers and enhance the city's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award, a project grant, runs through September 30, 2030, with place of performance in Denver, Colorado. The COPS Hiring Program supports state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies nationwide in advancing community policing practice by providing direct funding for officer hiring and related capacity-building initiatives, including engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of problem-analysis projects, and personnel and agency management changes in support of community policing.

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