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ClosedOpportunity O-COPS-2025-172413

FY25 COPS Hiring Program

Community Oriented Policing Services · Department of Justice

At a glance

FY25 COPS Hiring Program is a closed federal grant opportunity from the Community Oriented Policing Services (Department of Justice). The application deadline was June 25, 2025. Individual awards are listed as up to $6.25M, with about 250 awards expected and $157M in total estimated funding. Applicant types listed as eligible include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, federally recognized tribal governments and others (see notice). Cost sharing or matching is required. It is funded under Assistance Listing 16.068 (COPS Hiring Program).

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Key facts

  1. May 8, 2025Posted
  2. Jun 25, 2025Application deadline
Posted
May 8, 2025
Close date
Jun 25, 2025
Award floor
Not specified
Award ceiling
$6,250,000
Est. total funding
$156,668,839
Expected awards
250
Cost sharing
Required
Funding instrument
Grant
Opportunity category
Discretionary

Who can apply

  • State governments
  • County governments
  • City or township governments
  • Federally recognized tribal governments
  • Others (see notice)

Additional information on eligibility (from the notice)

Eligible applicants are limited to established and operational local, state, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies that have primary law enforcement authority. In addition, state and local governmental entities must comply with 8 U.S.C. § 1373, which provides that state and local government entities may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, receiving from, maintaining, or exchanging information regarding citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual with components of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or any other federal, state or local government entity. This includes any prohibitions or restrictions imposed or established by a state or local government entity or official. For additional information, please see the appendices in the FY25 CHP Application Resource Guide.

A quick check against the listed applicant types — other requirements in the notice still apply.

Based on the published notice. Review the official notice for complete eligibility requirements.

What it funds

Official synopsis as published by the agency, formatted for readability.

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. To date, the COPS Office has been appropriated more than $21 billion to advance community policing, including grants awarded to more than 13,000 state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of nearly 140,000 officers. COPS Office information resources, covering a wide range of community policing topics such as school and campus safety, violent crime, and officer safety and wellness, can be downloaded via the COPS Office’s home page, https://cops.usdoj.gov.

The FY25 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) provides funding 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. As community policing is common sense policing, throughout the CHP Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) materials, the terms ‘community policing’ and ‘common sense policing’ are used interchangeably, unless otherwise specified.

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.  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.

Additional information from the agency ↗

Assistance Listing

What is an ALN?

Reported obligations under ALN 16.068

Historical data · not a prediction
FY24$157M
FY25$157M est.
FY26$157M est.
Source: SAM.gov Assistance Listing 16.068. Program-wide totals, not awards from this specific opportunity.

Agency contact (as published)

Community Oriented Policing Services
askcopsRC@usdoj.gov
800-421-6770

Quick answers

Who is eligible to apply for “FY25 COPS Hiring Program”?

The official notice lists these applicant types as eligible: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Federally recognized tribal governments and Others (see notice). Additional restrictions may apply; review the full notice.

How much funding is available through “FY25 COPS Hiring Program”?

Per the notice, individual awards are listed as up to $6.25m, total estimated program funding is $156,668,839 and the agency expects to make about 250 awards.

How do I apply for “FY25 COPS Hiring Program”?

Applications are submitted through the official source, not through GrantsJunction. Open the official notice on Grants.gov (opportunity O-COPS-2025-172413), and review the full announcement and application package. Organizations applying through Grants.gov generally need an active SAM.gov registration and a Grants.gov account, which can take several weeks to set up.

Matched on shared Assistance Listings, agency, categories and eligible applicant types.