Title
Resolution to Amend the Fiscal Year 2023 Council Approved Budget to Accept and Appropriate the FY 2022 COPS Hiring Program Grant Awarded by United State Department of Justice (USDOJ), Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation’s state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. The COPS Office has invested more than $14 billion to advance community policing, including grants awarded to more than 13,000 state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of more than 134,000 officers.
The goal of the COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is to provide funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes of CHP awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of agency to engage in community policing activities.
FY 2022 CHP awards will cover up to 75 percent of the entry-level salary and fringe benefits for each approved position for a three-year funding period, based on the applicant’s current entry level salary levels for full-time officers. There is a minimum 25 percent local cash match (cost share) requirement. The maximum federal share per officer position is $125,000 over the three-year period Any additional costs for higher entry-level salaries and fringe benefits will be the responsibility of the recipient agency.
Funding under this program will support three years of officer salaries ...
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