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 Port St. Lucie, Florida $500,000 in project grant funding on October 1, 2025, 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 supports five years of performance through September 30, 2030, with work performed in Fort Pierce, Florida. The COPS Hiring Program provides funding to law enforcement agencies nationwide to expand community policing activities through officer hiring, planned community partnerships, implementation of problem-analysis projects, and changes to personnel and agency management practices. Recipients are obligated to submit semiannual programmatic performance reports and quarterly federal financial reports, and must cooperate with COPS Office monitoring activities including site visits and compliance reviews.

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