FY25 COPS Hiring Program

Closed Posted

Opportunity number
O-COPS-2025-172413
Agency
Applications due
Award size
Up to $6,250,000

Opportunity facts

Assistance listings
Funding instrument
Grant
Category
  • Law, Justice and Legal Services
Eligible applicants
  • Other
  • City/Township Governments
  • State Governments
  • County Governments
  • Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
Points of contact
Full announcement

Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .

About this opportunity

Written by GovTribe AI ·

The FY25 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is a grant opportunity offered by the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). The grant 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 requirements 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 the agency to engage in community policing activities. The evaluation criteria will focus on the agency's ability to demonstrate these community policing objectives. The application deadline is June 25, 2025.

The CHP grant provides funding to support the hiring and/or rehiring of additional career law enforcement officers, with no specific budget or quantity details provided. The grants are available to a range of applicant types, including city/township governments, state governments, county governments, and tribal governments. The place of performance is not specified, as the grants can be awarded to law enforcement agencies across the United States.

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. To date, the COPS Office has been appropriated more than $21 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 nearly 140,000 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 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. As community policing is common sense policing, throughout the CHP Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) materials, the terms 'community policing' and 'common sense policing' are used interchangeably, unless otherwise specified. 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.

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