Description: Funds for an organization to support the COPS Office with coordinating the Blue Alert System to support the National Blue Alert Network.

Criteria: Is your agency a Public Government Agency, For Profit (Commercial) Organization, Non-Profit Organization, Institution of Higher Education, Community Group, or a Faith-Based Organization?

Description: Funds for a technical assistance provider to provide targeted technical assistance to law enforcement agencies experiencing high-profile events, major incidents, or sensitive issues of varying need.

Criteria: Is your agency one of the following: Institution of Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization, or For Profit (Commercial) Organization?

Description: Funding to increase the capacity of existing accreditation bodies to provide services to agencies including small, rural, and tribal law enforcement and to provide accreditation services in states that currently do not have them.

Sub Category Solicitation:

• Addressing Gaps in State and Regional Accreditation

  Description: funding to support the establishment of accreditation entities in states and regions that do not have an accreditation body.

  Criteria: Is your agency one of the following: Institution of Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization, Faith Based Organization, Community Group, Public Government Agency, Federally Recognized Tribe and their Public Agencies, or For Profit (Commercial) Organization?

Description: Funds for projects that will develop products and resources on law enforcement topics, specifically designed for national distribution that offer creative ideas that advance crime fighting, community engagement, problem solving, or organizational changes in support of community policing. Proposed initiatives must be national in scope, which the COPS Office defines as intentionally developed to benefit agencies nationwide, not just a specific state or region. Examples of the types of products and resources that the COPS Office generally distributes include the following:

• Online or in-person training curricula
• Guidebooks
• Emerging issues forums
• Policy guides
• Promising practices
• Pilot programs, case studies, or evaluations
• Roll-call videos
• Podcasts or webinars
• Self-assessment tools
• Interactive websites

Criteria: Is your agency one of the following: Institution of Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization, Faith Based Organization, Community Group, or For Profit (Commercial) Organization?

Description: Funds to support a provider who can provide nationwide training to at least 20,000 first responders over the course of the award through scenario-based, multidisciplinary training classes.

Criteria: Is your agency one of the following: Institution of Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization, Faith Based Organization, Community Group, Public Government Agency, Federally Recognized Tribe and their Public Agencies, or For Profit (Commercial) Organization?

Description: Funds are used to support tribal law enforcement agencies through training and technical assistance efforts around community policing topics.

Sub Category Solicitation:

• Alaska Tribal Law Enforcement Technical Assistance Project

  Description: Funding provided to an organization that demonstrates well-established experience in developing and delivering direct technical assistance to law enforcement personnel and criminal justice professionals in this area, preferably with experience in Alaska.

  Criteria: Is your agency a Institution of Higher Education, Non-Profit Organization, Faith Based Organization, Community Group, Public Government Agency, Federally Recognized Trribe and their Public Agency, or For Profit (Commercial) Organization?