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 Metlakatla Indian Community $122,786 on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to hire and rehire career law enforcement officers and increase community policing capacity. The award supports law enforcement officer hiring to strengthen the tribal law enforcement agency's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts, with anticipated outcomes including 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 agency capacity to engage in community policing activities. The period of performance runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030, with work performed in Metlakatla, Alaska. The recipient, a federally recognized tribal government headquartered in Metlakatla and doing business as Metlakatla Power & Light, serves approximately 1,400 tribal members across the Annette Islands Reserve in southeast Alaska.

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