FY25 COPS Hiring Program | O COPS 2025 172413

Opportunity Information: Apply for O COPS 2025 172413

The FY25 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is a discretionary federal grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (the COPS Office). The COPS Office exists to expand and strengthen community policing across the United States by providing both grant funding and practical information resources to law enforcement agencies. Historically, Congress has appropriated more than $21 billion to the COPS Office to support community policing efforts, with grants reaching more than 13,000 agencies and helping fund the hiring and redeployment of nearly 140,000 officers. Alongside funding, the COPS Office also publishes guidance and toolkits on topics like violent crime, school and campus safety, and officer safety and wellness, available through https://cops.usdoj.gov.

The purpose of the FY25 CHP program is straightforward: it provides funding to help eligible law enforcement agencies hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers. The intent is not just to increase headcount, but to increase an agency's capacity to carry out community policing and to strengthen crime prevention. The program materials note that "community policing" and "common sense policing" are used interchangeably in the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), emphasizing a practical approach focused on partnerships, problem-solving, and proactive strategies rather than purely reactive enforcement.

CHP-funded efforts are expected to translate into specific outcomes inside agencies and in the communities they serve. Anticipated outcomes include stronger and more intentional community partnerships, projects that analyze and assess local public safety problems, and internal changes to personnel practices or agency management that support community policing as an organizational philosophy. Ultimately, the program is aiming for agencies to have more staffing and better organizational readiness to engage residents, identify recurring issues, and address the conditions that contribute to violent crime, nonviolent crime, and fear of crime.

Eligibility is limited to established and operational law enforcement agencies with primary law enforcement authority at the local, state, territorial, and tribal levels. The opportunity lists eligible applicant types as state governments, county governments, city or township governments, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments, with some additional eligible entities captured under "others" as defined in the NOFO. A notable compliance requirement applies to state and local governmental entities: they must comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373, which bars state and local restrictions on the sharing or maintenance of information regarding an individual's citizenship or immigration status with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or other government entities. The program points applicants to the FY25 CHP Application Resource Guide appendices for more details on this condition.

Key administrative details from the listing include the Opportunity Number O-COPS-2025-172413 and CFDA 16.068. The grant has an award ceiling of $6,250,000, and the COPS Office anticipates making about 250 awards. The opportunity was created on May 8, 2025, and the original application closing date is June 25, 2025.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY25 COPS Hiring Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.068.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-05-08.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-06-25. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $6,250,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 250 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Others.

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