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 North West Arctic Borough $250,000 on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to hire and rehire law enforcement officers across the borough's eleven villages in Kotzebue, Alaska and surrounding communities. The award funds expansion of community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts through increased staffing. Performance runs through September 30, 2030. The funding supports the borough's planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess public safety problems, and changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing operations. The COPS Hiring Program provides five-year funding periods to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies; extensions of up to twelve additional months may be approved on a case-by-case basis.

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