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 Weber City $125,000 on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to support the hiring of career law enforcement officers and expand the agency's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award funds activities in Weber City, Virginia, with a performance period extending through September 30, 2030. The COPS Hiring Program provides direct support to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies to advance community policing practices nationwide through officer hiring and related capacity-building initiatives.

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