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's Community Oriented Policing Services Program awarded the City of La Porte $500,000 on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program to support the hiring of additional career law enforcement officers and increase the agency's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award funds law enforcement officer hiring and rehiring, with anticipated outcomes including engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of problem-analysis projects, personnel and agency management changes to support community policing, and expanded agency capacity for community policing activities. The City of La Porte will perform the work at its location in La Porte, Indiana. The grant period runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030. Recipients are responsible for semiannual programmatic performance reporting and quarterly federal financial reports, with the COPS Office conducting award monitoring through site visits, office-based reviews, and surveys to verify compliance with nonsupplanting requirements and programmatic and financial conditions.

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