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.

• 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: 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.

• 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?