The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services is seeking applications for funding for the COPS Office FY 2023 Community Policing Development (CPD) Critical Topics program.
Donor Name: Community Oriented Policing Services
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $700,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as violent crime, nonviolent crime, and fear of crime. Community Policing Development (CPD) funds are used to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.
The COPS Office is committed to advancing work that promotes civil rights and racial equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, strengthens community safety and protects the public from crime and evolving threats, and build trust between law enforcement and the community.
Program Goals
Under this solicitation, the COPS Office seeks to support projects that allow for the identification and expansion of promising practices and produces knowledge products that follow the principles of good guidance:
- Quality-driven, with an emphasis on action statements to drive promising practices and reduce variations in performance
- Evidence-based, with recommendations that are consistent with the weight of the best available evidence identified through systematic review
- Accessible, with clear language and manageable lengths that are appropriate and relevant for the law enforcement field
- Memorable, to encourage immediate actions or aid for the complex situations law enforcement professionals face
Projects Out of Scope
- Applicants that are not institutions of higher education, for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, community groups, and faith-based organizations will not be considered.
- Projects that do not focus on development of recruitment, retention, and workforce diversification resources (videos, toolkits, publications, podcasts, etc.) that can be shared with the broader law enforcement field and/or provide technical assistance to agencies on the topic areas will not be considered.
Requirements
The project description should also address the following criteria:
- The subject matter expertise of the project leadership
- The ability to serve as a centralized unit for collecting, reforming, monitoring, and tracking law enforcement recruitment, retention and workforce diversification
- The proposed program activities that will support the development of recruitment, retention and workforce diversification resources that can be shared with the broader law enforcement community, including the following proposed activities:
- Choosing sample policing agencies from CHP awardees to participate in the project Revitalizing job descriptions, recruitment criteria, and application management systems
- Revitalizing agencies retention and workforce diversification efforts
- A plan for the provision of technical assistance resources to recent CHP awardees
- How providers will gauge impact of proposed resources being offered
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under: $3,500,000.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $700,000
Period of Performance Duration (Months)
24
Eligibility Information
Open to all for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations.
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