FY24 COPS Hiring Program
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- O-COPS-2024-172009
- Agency
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Community Oriented Policing Program
Offices Boards and Divisions, Department of Justice
- Applications due
- Award size
- Up to $6,250,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Category
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- Law, Justice and Legal Services
- Eligible applicants
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- Other
- County Governments
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- State Governments
- City/Township Governments
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is a grant opportunity offered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), a component of the U.S. Department of Justice. CHP provides funding to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers, with the goal of increasing their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Key objectives of the program include fostering community partnerships, implementing problem-solving techniques, and enhancing the agency's ability to engage in community policing activities. Applicants may include other government entities, county and city/township governments, tribal governments, and state governments. The application deadline is June 6, 2024.
The CHP program has been appropriated over $20 billion to advance community policing, with grants awarded to more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of over 136,000 officers. While specific award amounts are not provided, the program aims to support the hiring and redeployment of additional officers to enhance community policing efforts nationwide.
Synopsis
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation's state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. The COPS Office has been appropriated more than $20 billion to advance community policing, including grants awarded to more than 13,000 state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of more than 136,000 officers. COPS Office information resources, covering a wide range of community policing topics such as school and campus safety, violent crime, and officer safety and wellness, can be downloaded via the COPS Office's home page, https://cops.usdoj.gov. The 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. Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as violent crime, nonviolent crime, and fear of crime. To read an overview of the principles of community policing, please see the COPS Office publication Community Policing Defined. The COPS Office is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and build trust between law enforcement and the community.
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