Closed · O-COPS-2025-172413 · CFDA 16.068 · Discretionary
FY25 COPS Hiring Program
Federal grant opportunity posted by Community Oriented Policing Services, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- up to $6.3M
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- June 25, 2025
- Close date
- 250
- Expected awards
The verdict
FY25 COPS Hiring Program is a closed discretionary listing from Community Oriented Policing Services that offered Up to $6,250,000 across 250 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 114 other opportunities from Community Oriented Policing Services.
- up to $6.3M
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 250
- expected awards
- 16.068
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
FY25 COPS Hiring Program is closed (last close June 25, 2025). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Community Oriented Policing Services still indexes 114 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed June 25, 2025
Est. Total Funding
$156,668,839
Expected Awards
250
Instrument
Grant
Cost Sharing
Required
Description
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.
Multi-door applicant board · 5 Grants.gov types
Grants.gov prints 5 distinct applicant types for FY25 COPS Hiring Program (State governments; County governments; City or township governments; Federally recognized tribal governments; +1 more). Filter fit against the official announcement before drafting. Applicant cost-sharing is required on the Grants.gov extract. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Law, Justice and Legal Services (LJL). Only 5 other Community Oriented Policing Services listings share this exact eligibility-code string (4% of 115).
- Code 00
- State governments
- Code 01
- County governments
- Code 02
- City or township governments
- Code 07
- Federally recognized tribal governments
- Code 25
- Others (see official listing text)
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
View full details, application forms, and submission instructions.
Agency Contact
Applications must be submitted through both Grants.gov and the JustGrants system. For technical assistance with submitting the Application for Federal Assistance, Standard Form 424 (SF-424), please call the Grants.gov customer service hotline at 800-518-4726, send questions via email to support@Grants.gov or consult the Grants.gov Organization Applicant User Guide. The Grants.gov Support Hotline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except on federal holidays. For technical support with the Justice Grants System (JustGrants) application, please contact JustGrants Support at JustGrants.Support@usdoj.gov or 833-872-5175. JustGrants Support operates Monday through Friday between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) and Saturday, Sunday, and federal holidays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Training on JustGrants can also be found at https://justicegrants.usdoj.gov/training-resources. For programmatic assistance with the requirements of this program, please call the COPS Office Response Center at 800-421-6770 or send questions via email to AskCopsRC@usdoj.gov. The COPS Office Response Center operates Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, except on federal holidays. askcopsRC@usdoj.gov
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What to do next
FY25 COPS Hiring Program is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.
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