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 $125,000 to the City of Norwalk on October 1, 2025, under the COPS Hiring Program (CFDA 16.068) to support the hiring and/or rehiring of career law enforcement officers and increase community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. The award funds activities 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 recipient is the City of Norwalk, a municipal government entity in Los Angeles County, California, performing work in Norwalk, CA 90650. The period of performance runs five years from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2030, with extensions available on a case-by-case basis for up to twelve additional months. The recipient will submit semiannual programmatic performance reports, quarterly SF-425 Federal Financial Reports, and a final closeout report, and must participate in award monitoring activities including site visits, office-based reviews, and surveys by the COPS Office, the Office of the Inspector General, or designated entities.

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