The Indiana Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) received a $499,941 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will be used to update and enhance the ILEA's post-basic law enforcement training curriculum with a focus on integrating de-escalation skills. The project will leverage a recent job task...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $2,000,000.00 and issued by the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under CFDA 16.710 (Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants), supports the National Policing Institute (NPI) and the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) in developing, implementing, and piloting a standards-based approach and online platform for the approval and tracking of law enforcement de-escalation training...
The Bureau of Justice Assistance, under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753), awarded a $963,000 project grant to Rio Hondo Community College District to build a Situational Simulation Training Center (referred to as "Scenario Village"). This training center will provide realistic, scenario-based instruction to law enforcement officers throughout Los Angeles County, enabling them to practice de-escalation, active shooter response, SWAT operations, and other...
The CNA Corporation will receive $978,449 under a cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice to conduct a multi-site evaluation of a field training intervention for law enforcement officers. As part of the National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560), CNA will partner with the National Field Training Officer Association and Polis Solutions to select three law enforcement...
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has awarded a $4,984,036 five-year Cooperative Agreement to RTI International, in partnership with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), to execute the Law Enforcement Core Statistics (LECS) program under the Special Data Collections and Statistical Studies federal grant program (CFDA 16.734). The overarching goals of this effort are to enumerate and describe variations in U.S. law enforcement agencies through the 2024 Law Enforcement...
This cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Offices Boards and Divisions Community Oriented Policing Program, under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710), provides $9,790,000.13 to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University to deliver active shooter and integrated emergency response training nationwide. Specifically, ALERRT will conduct 235 hands-on training classes and support an...
The Colorado Attorney General's Office, through the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Board, has been awarded a $499,914 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The grant will be used to undertake a comprehensive project aimed at updating and enhancing the basic law enforcement training curriculum with a focus on integrating...
This $500,000 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) under the OVW Technical Assistance Initiative (CFDA 16.526), will support the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College (NCJTC) and its partner, the Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI), in providing training and technical assistance (TTA) to tribal law enforcement agencies responding to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual...
The Maine Department of Public Safety received a $500,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710). The grant will be used to update the state's 720-hour Basic Law Enforcement Training Program (BLETP) curriculum, which is required for all full-time law enforcement officers in Maine. Key activities include conducting a job task analysis of...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710), will enable the Lynn Police Department to implement two de-escalation training courses for its officers. The $349,007 award will fund Integrating Communications Assessment and Tactics De-Escalation Training (ICAT) and Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) programs. These...