The central bucks regional police departments (cbrpd) collaborative multi-jurisdictional effort, cbrpd victim services unit expansion, will increase the quality and quantity of victim services

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime awarded the Central Bucks Regional Police Department $425,560 on October 1, 2025, under the Crime Victim Assistance/Discretionary Grants program (CFDA 16.582) to expand and strengthen its Victim Services Unit.

The recipient will maintain a law enforcement-based victim services unit by implementing strategies that improve and broaden delivery of services to crime victims at the point of police contact and throughout the criminal justice process. The unit will identify and deliver victim-centered services with a focus on domestic violence incidents, sex offenses, assault offenses, strangulation, stalking, and harassment incidents. The expansion aims to increase the quality and quantity of victim services, ensure more offenders are held accountable, and enhance community safety by deterring future criminal behavior.

The award runs from October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028, with place of performance in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The assistance type is a project grant.

The project willmaintain law enforcement-based victim services unit (VSU) by implementing strategies that improveand broaden the delivery of services to better assist crime victims at the point of police contact and throughout the criminal justice process. The project will ensure more offenders are held accountable and enhance community safety by deterring future criminal behavior. The VSU will identify and deliver victim-centered services with a focus on domestic violence incidents, SEX offenses, assault offenses, strangulation, stalking, and harassment incidents.