Territorial Law Enforcement Agencies

Please view all solicitations below that you may be eligible for by being a territorial 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.

Community Policing Development: Accreditation Solicitation

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?

Community Policing Development (CPD) De-Escalation Training

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?

Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants Solicitation

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.

Sub Category Solicitations:

  • 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?

COPS Hiring Program (CHP) Solicitation

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?

Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Solicitation

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?

Promoting Access to Crisis Teams (Formerly CIT)

Description: Funds to support the implementation of crisis intervention teams, including embedding behavioral or mental health professionals with law enforcement agencies, training for law enforcement officers and embedded behavioral or mental health professionals in crisis intervention response, or a combination of these.

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