• COPS Office Photo Contest – June Winner
• Tribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs Agencies Take the Community Policing Self-Assessment Tool
• USNCB Strengthens Access to International Systems
• 2016 COPS Office Solicitations

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The COPS Office is pleased to feature the June 2016 winner of the Community Policing in Action Photo Contest—the St. Charles County (Missouri) Police Department. Their winning photo features St. Charles County Police Chief Colonel David Todd with “Chief for the Day” Sydney Coari in October 2015.

Tribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs Agencies Take the Community Policing Self-Assessment Tool

CP-SAT background. The value of community policing is widely acknowledged by the law enforcement field as a successful strategy in addressing crime, social disorder, and fear of crime, yet police administrators have struggled to practically define and measure community policing implementation within their organizations.

USNCB Strengthens Access to International Systems

For almost a decade, INTERPOL Washington, the United States National Central Bureau (USNCB), has empowered the nation’s law enforcement to use both national and INTERPOL criminal indices. The process of linking states together to use INTERPOL systems, known as federation, will assist officers across the country in making determinations about persons or items they encounter in the field: suspected fugitives, victims, stolen vehicles, stolen travel documents, etc.

2016 COPS Office Solicitations

COPS Hiring Program (CHP) – 2016 CHP grants provide 75 percent of the approved entry-level salaries and fringe benefits of each newly hired or rehired full-time officer, up to $125,000 per officer position, over the three-year (36-month) grant period.

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