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 El Paso $2.25 million 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 funds the expansion of El Paso's policing workforce through a five-year period of performance ending September 30, 2030. Work is performed in El Paso, Texas. The program supports law enforcement agencies nationwide in advancing community policing by providing direct funding for officer hiring; anticipated outcomes include planned community partnerships, implementation of problem-analysis projects, personnel and agency management changes supporting community policing, and increased capacity for community policing activities.

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