Description: Funds to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement effective practices, outcomes, and strategies to prevent crime and promote safe communities.       

Notice of Funding Opportunity:

• Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies in Seeking Accreditation

  Description: funds to support law enforcement agencies seeking accreditation. Under this funding opportunity, the COPS Office will fund costs related to obtaining accreditation from an existing law enforcement accreditation entity. 

  Criteria: Is your organization a state, local, tribal, or territorial law enforcement agency?

Description: Funds provided to local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to implement novel or innovative projects that work to solve problems in the agency or community, to advance crime fighting, community engagement, problem solving, or organizational changes in support of community policing.

Sub Category Notice of Funding Opportunities:

• Officer Recruitment, Retention, and Workforce Diversification

  Description: Funds to support projects with novel or creative methods for recruitment and retention in law enforcement that include quantitative measures of success.

• Uplifting the Image of the Law Enforcement Profession

  Description: Funds to develop or implement innovative and collaborative projects aimed at uplifting law enforcement as a profession and promote the importance and nobility of those who take on these heroic roles.

• Violent Crime Prevention

  Description: Funds to support demonstration or pilot projects with creative methods for combatting violent crime that include quantitative measures of success.

• Immigration and Border Security

  Description: Funds to support projects that gather insights and best practices from local law enforcement agencies to identify successful models of collaboration with federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

• Opioid and Drug Market Interruption

  Description: Funds to develop initiatives that will enhance law enforcement capacity to interrupt opioid distribution networks, dismantle drug trafficking organizations, employ effective enforcement strategies, promote interagency and cross-jurisdictional collaboration, promote intelligence sharing, community engagement, and innovative methods for opioid-related crime prevention and intervention.

• Homeless and Squatting

  Description: Funds to develop innovative and collaborative programs that will enable law enforcement agencies to address the negative impacts of homelessness and squatting, with an emphasis on enforcement, prevention, and community collaboration.

• Open Topic Area

  Description: Funds to propose projects that offer highly innovative solutions to address complex, locally identified community issues. Proposed project objectives and findings should prove useful to other law enforcement agencies nationally facing similar challenges.

  Criteria: Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

Description: Enables Tribes, Alaska Native villages, and Tribal consortia to submit a single application for seven of the Department of Justice’s competitive grant programs (additional information and helpful resources). The purpose of CTAS Purpose Area #1 Tribal Resources Grant Program (TRGP) funds are to expand the implementation of community policing and meet the most serious needs of law enforcement in Tribal Nations, to include the hiring or re-hiring of career law enforcement officers and village public safety officers, and procuring basic equipment and training to assist in the initiation or enhancement of Tribal community policing efforts.

Criteria: Is your agency one of the following: Federally Recognized Tribe and their Public Agency or Tribal Law Enforcement Agency?

Description: Funds to support the hiring of career law enforcement officers to increase an agency's community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.

Criteria: Is your organization a State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Law Enforcement Agency?

Description: Provide training, programming, and support services in law enforcement emotional and mental health, including such things as suicide prevention, peer mentoring, clinical support, and family support services.

Sub Category Notice of Funding Opportunity:

• The LEMHWA Implementation Projects:

  Description: Program funds the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness services for law enforcement officers and their families through the implementation of peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, stress reduction, clinical support, and other promising practices for wellness programs.

  Criteria: Is your organization a state, local, tribal, or territorial law enforcement agency?

Description: Funds to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the award recipient’s jurisdiction through evidence-based school safety programs and technology.

Criteria:  Is your agency one of the following: State, Local, or Tribal Law Enforcement Agency, Unit of Local Government (e.g., county, city, school district), Federally Recognize Tribe and their Public Agencies, or a Public Government Agency?