State Law Enforcement Agencies

Please view all solicitations below that you may be eligible for by being a law enforcement agency. You will find a description and criteria for each solicitation listed below. Please select the check mark if you meet the prescribed criteria and please click the X if you do not meet the criteria.


Description: Funds to locate or investigate illicit activities related to the distribution of heroin, fentanyl, or carfentanil; the unlawful distribution of prescription opioids; or unlawful heroin and prescription opioid traffickers through statewide collaboration.

Criteria: Is your organization a State Law Enforcement Agency?

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:

  • Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies in Seeking Accreditation

    Description: Funds to Support law enforcement agencies seeking accreditation. Under this solicitation, 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 for the creation or expansion of crisis intervention teams and to embed mental and behavioral health services with law enforcement agencies so they can better respond to individuals in crisis in the community.

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

Description: Funds to support comprehensive de-escalation approach.

Sub Category Solicitation:

  • Law Enforcement Agency De-Escalation Grants

    Description: Funds to support whole agency de-escalation, implicit bias, and duty to intervene training efforts, including overtime to participate in training programs and support for training officers to attend nationally certified train-the-trainer programs in these topic areas.

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

Description: Funds to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies to improves the identification and prioritization of community problems; build trust and relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve; and enables an agency to build a culture toward accountability, transparency, open communication, and mutual trust.

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  • Officer Recruitment, Retention, and Workforce Diversification

    Description: Funds to support demonstration or pilot projects with creative methods for recruitment, retention and the advancement of diverse representation within law enforcement that include quantitative measures of success to better reflect the diversity of the community or to meet the standards of the 30x30 initiative.

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

  • Underserved Populations

    Description: Funds to develop or enhance programs that meet the needs of underserved populations. Underserved populations may include youth, older adults, communities of color, persons experiencing homelessness, LGBTQ+ individuals, persons with disabilities (physical, mental, or intellectual or neurodivergent), undocumented immigrants, and persons in economically disadvantaged situations.

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

  • Building Trust and Legitimacy within the Community

    Description: Funds to support law enforcement agencies seeking to develop or enhance programs that focus on building trust and legitimacy between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

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

  • Hate Crimes and Domestic Extremism

    Description: Funds to develop or enhance programs that aid in the prevention of and response to hate crimes and domestic extremism.

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

  • Community Violence Intervention

    Description: Funds to develop and enhance programs that engage the community in violence reduction efforts including street outreach, violence interrupters, hospital-based interventions, group violence interventions, and other strategies that provide wraparound services to communities

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

Description: Funds to locate or investigate illicit activities including precursor diversion, laboratories, or methamphetamine traffickers.

Criteria: Is your organization a State 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 Solicitation:
  • The LEMHWA Implementation Projects

    Description: Funds to implement new or enhance existing programs that offer training and services on officer emotional and mental health, peer mentoring, suicide prevention, stress reduction, and support services for officers and their families Proposed projects may serve one agency, a consortium of agencies, or personnel from agencies located within a county or state.

    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 Recognized Tribe and their Public Agencies, or a Public Government Agency?