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's Community Oriented Policing Program awarded County of Dixon $405,906 under the FY25 COPS Hiring Program on October 1, 2025. The award supports hiring and rehiring of career law enforcement officers to expand the county's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Dixon County is located in Ponca, Nebraska. The award runs through September 30, 2030, with a performance period of five years. COPS Hiring Program funding (CFDA 16.068) provides direct support to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies to reduce crime and advance public safety through community policing. Recipients are obligated to submit programmatic performance reports on a semiannual basis and Federal Financial Reports quarterly, and must comply with award monitoring activities including site visits and noncompliance reviews conducted by the COPS Office, the Office of the Inspector General, or designees of the COPS Office.

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