Description

This funding opportunity, offered by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) at the U.S. Department of Justice, supports demonstration or pilot projects that enhance the capacity of law enforcement agencies to implement innovative or evidence-based community policing initiatives. The program is designed to fund projects that address specific public safety needs or gaps in services, with the goal of improving officer and public safety, advancing crime fighting, and promoting community safety.

Applicants are invited to propose projects in one of the following eleven focus areas:

• Preventing and investigating domestic terrorism
• Violent crime enforcement and investigations
• Gang violence enforcement and investigations
• Detecting and investigating human trafficking
• Investigating and interrupting child exploitation
• Vagrancy and squatting
• Immigration and border security
• Investigating and interrupting opioid and drug markets
• Officer recruitment, hiring, and retention
• Unmanned aerial systems
• Investigating and interrupting cybercrime

The COPS Office encourages partnerships with other law enforcement entities and relevant stakeholders, as well as the inclusion of evaluation components to measure project impact. Applicants may submit multiple proposals, but each project must be submitted as a separate application.