Town Of Spindale Police Department

Town of Spindale Police Department, doing business as Spindale Fire Department, is a U.S. local government entity based in Spindale, North Carolina that has established itself as an active recipient of federal grant funding. The department operates as a municipal public safety organization serving the Town of Spindale and surrounding Rutherford County area. Through federal grant awards, the Town of Spindale Police Department/Spindale Fire Department provides emergency response services, law enforcement support, and community safety infrastructure to its jurisdiction while leveraging federal resources to enhance operational capacity and community protection initiatives.

The organization has demonstrated substantial experience managing diverse federal grant programs across multiple funding agencies. Most recently, the department received a $250,000 FY25 COPS Hiring Program grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (CFDA 16.068) with a five-year performance period through September 2030, focused on hiring additional law enforcement officers to expand community policing capacity. The Spindale Fire Department has also secured critical firefighting and emergency response funding, including a $100,000 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) from FEMA awarded in August 2024 to support personal protective equipment procurement, facility upgrades, and firefighter health initiatives, and a $177,300 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant from FEMA (CFDA #97.083) awarded in June 2023 to strengthen staffing and deployment operations through June 2027. Beyond public safety, the town leveraged a substantial $1,944,046 Economic Adjustment Assistance grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (CFDA 11.307) awarded in July 2023 to fund critical water and sewer infrastructure improvements designed to support regional business growth and job creation in partnership with local private sector expansion. Additionally, the department has received federal sub-grant awards through the North Carolina Department of Public Safety for disaster recovery initiatives and through the Department of Commerce North Carolina for community development block grant funding supporting public infrastructure installation for residential construction projects.