The funding purpose is to hire and re-hire entry level career LEOs to preserve jobs, increase community policing capacities, and support crime prevention efforts
The COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is now accepting grant applications and is open to all state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies with primary law enforcement authority. The funding purpose is to hire and re-hire entry level career law enforcement officers to preserve jobs, increase community policing capacities, and support crime prevention efforts. The total funding an applicant can request is $125,000 to be used over a Period of Performance (POP) of 3 years. CHP is a competitive grant — you are competing with hundreds of other applications. Your application must comply with all of the requirements set by the USDOJ. When the application states “minimal”, “at least”, or “it is highly recommended” your application must exceed these suggestions, in order to be in the running for the award.
Highlights for this year’s COPS Hiring Programs include:
The COPS Office strongly recommends that applicants register immediately on Grants.gov. In addition, applicants are strongly encouraged to complete the SF-424 as quickly as possible. Any delays in registering with Grants.gov or submitting the SF-424 may result in insufficient time for processing your application. You may be excluded from eligibility if this is not completed right away! In addition, immediately update your Date Universal Numbering System (DUNS) and assure that your System for Award Management (SAM) is up to date!
Hiring categories include:
1. New officer positions
2. Rehire of officers who have been laid off
3. Rehire of officers who at the time of application are scheduled to be laid off
Priority consideration for funding will be given to those applicants who are requesting School Resource Officers, Homicide/Gun Violence Strategies, Homeland Security Problems or Building Trust. Additional priority will also be given for those jurisdictions which have experienced an unanticipated catastrophic event or are a part of the President’s Priority Zone initiative.
Award details include:
Military Veterans
Under the FY 2016 CHP solicitation, a military veteran is defined as an individual who served on active duty at any time in the armed forces for a period of more than 180 consecutive days any part of which occurred on or after September 11, 2001 and who has been discharged or released from active duty in the armed forces under honorable conditions. Under 2016 CHP, new hire officer positions are not required to be filled by military veterans. However, applicants who commit to hiring or rehiring at least one military veteran (as defined above) will receive additional consideration for 2016.
School Resource Officer
If you are planning to hire School Resource Officers, you must comply with specific application requirements. These include the development or upgrade to a full and robust program with specifically determined goals, outcomes, targets and deliverables.
An SRO is a career law enforcement officer with sworn authority, deployed in community oriented policing, and assigned by the employing police department or agency to work in collaboration with schools and community-based organizations to (a) address crime problems, gangs, and drug activities affecting or occurring in or around an elementary or secondary school; (b) to develop or expand crime prevention efforts for students; (c) to educate school-age victims in crime prevention and safety; (d) to develop or expand community justice initiatives for students; (e) to train students in conflict resolution, restorative justice, and crime awareness; (f) to assist in the identification of physical changes in the environment that may reduce crime in or around the school; and (g) to assist in developing school policy that addresses crime and to recommend procedural changes.
If your agency is requesting officer position(s) in order to deploy SROs, then all of the grant-funded positions must be used to deploy full-time SROs; in order to request officer position(s) to deploy officers as SROs, you must select “School Based Policing through School Resource Officers” under “Child and Youth Safety Focus” as your community policing focus area in Section 6B, Question 6 of the application. If your agency selects this focus area and is awarded 2016 CHP funding, your agency will not be able to change the focus area of its community policing strategy post-award.
For details on how to develop and complete your application, strategy development, goals, objectives, outcomes and deliverables for a highly developed fundable application, please go to the following documents and websites and review carefully all the directions, recommendations and requirements for funding:
Program Outline
Application Guide
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Pre-Award Fact Sheet
MOU Fact Sheet
Invitational Letter
Professional tips:
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