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 City of Dearborn Heights, Michigan $1.125 million under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to hire and rehire career law enforcement officers and increase the agency's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award, made October 1, 2025, funds the implementation of planned community partnerships, projects to analyze and assess community problems, changes to personnel and agency management supporting community policing, and expanded agency capacity for community policing activities. Work is performed in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, with a five-year period of performance ending September 30, 2030. The City of Dearborn Heights' Community & Economic Development Department serves as the administering division 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