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 County of Orange, New York $750,000 on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to support law enforcement officer recruitment and community policing capacity building. The award funds the hiring and rehire of career law enforcement officers to increase the recipient's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts, with anticipated outcomes including planned community partnerships, problem analysis and assessment projects, personnel and agency management changes in support of community policing, and increased agency capacity for community policing activities. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030, with place of performance in Goshen, New York. County of Orange, through its Department of Finance, serves as the recipient and fiscal agent for the award.

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