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 Town of Ashby Police Department $125,000 on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to hire and rehire career law enforcement officers and expand the agency's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award funds the hiring of additional officers, implementation of planned community partnerships, projects to analyze and assess public safety problems, and personnel and agency management changes that support community policing strategy. Performance runs through September 30, 2030, with work performed in Ashby, Massachusetts. The recipient must submit semiannual programmatic performance reports and quarterly federal financial reports throughout the award period.

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