Office of Community Oriented Policing Services COPS COPS

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

COPS Overview

COPS Overview • Established by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. • Mission is to advance public safety through community policing. • Community policing focuses on collaborative efforts to prevent and respond to crime, social disorder, and fear of crime. • Since 1994, the COPS Office has invested more than $14 billion to add community policing officers to the nation’s streets, enhance crime fighting technology, support crime prevention initiatives, and provide training and technical assistance to help advance community policing. • The COPS Office has funded more than 130, 000 additional officers to more than 13, 000 of the nation’s 18, 000 law enforcement agencies across the country in small and large jurisdictions alike.

COPS Overview Since 1994, COPS has awarded $545, 577, 460 to Illinois. COPS has provided Illinois with funding for 6, 000 additional police officers and sheriffs deputies. 717 different agencies within Illinois have benefited from COPS funding.

Community Policing • 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 crime, social disorder, and fear of crime. • Community policing comprises three key components: – Community Partnerships – Organizational Transformation – Problem Solving

COPS Budget Information Program FY 16 Enacted FY 17 Enacted FY 18 Enacted In Millions COPS Hiring $137 $149. 5 Tribal Resources Grant Program (TRGP) $30 Up to 7% of available funding $30 Community Policing Development $10 $5 $10 School Violence Prevention Program - - $25 Collaborative Reform Model $10 - Anti-Meth Task Forces $7 $7 $8 Anti-Heroin Task Forces $7 $10 $32 Preparing for Active Shooter Situations - $7. 5 $10 OJP Regional Information Sharing Transfer - $35 $36 DEA Meth Transfer $11 $10 - $212 M $221. 5 M TOTALS $300. 5 M

COPS Hiring Program • The COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is designed to advance public safety through community policing by addressing the full time sworn officer needs of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies nationwide. • CHP provides 75% of the approved entry level salary and fringe benefits of full time officers for a 36 month grant period, with a minimum 25 % local cash match requirement and a maximum federal share of $125, 000 per officer position. • CHP grants may be used on or after the official grant award start date to: – (1) hire new officers (including filling existing officer vacancies that are no longer funded in an agency’s budget); – (2) rehire officers already laid off by any jurisdiction as a result of state, local, or Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) budget reductions unrelated to the receipt of grant funding; and/or – (3) rehire officers scheduled to be laid off by the grantee’s jurisdiction on a specific future date as a result of state, local, or BIA budget reductions unrelated to the receipt of grant funding. In 2017, COPS awarded 179 agencies and funded 802 officers

Community Policing Development • Funding designed to create opportunities to learn, collaborate, solve problems, and enhance public safety by developing and leveraging knowledge. • Funding is typically for innovative, cost-effective projects which are national in scope. • The Microgrant Initiative is part of the COPS Office Community Policing Development (CPD) Program that aims to facilitate the implementation or advancement of nationwide community policing efforts, as well as to address existing gaps in community policing knowledge and tools. • Microgrants highlight innovative and experimental community policing projects in state, local, tribal, campus, and/or other law enforcement agencies. Projects developed under this solicitation should be innovative in their approach to enhancing the community policing activities of the applicant agency and be replicable and of potential relevance and interest to other jurisdictions.

School Violence Prevention Program • The Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Act of 2018 provides funding for the U. S. Department of Justice to make grants to states, units of local government, and Indian tribes to fund evidence-based programs and technologies to stop school violence. • The COPS Office will provide funding through the School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) for coordination with law enforcement; training for local law enforcement officers to prevent student violence against others and self; metal detectors, locks, lighting, and other deterrent measures; technology for expedited notification of local law enforcement during an emergency; and other measures providing a significant improvement in security.

Anti Meth & Anti Heroin Programs Anti-Heroin Task Force • COPS will make competitive grants to state law enforcement agencies in states with high per capita levels of primary treatment admissions for both heroin and other opioids. • These funds shall be used for drug enforcement, including investigations and activities related to the distribution of heroin or unlawful diversion and distribution of prescription opioids. Anti-Meth Task Force • COPS will make competitive grates to state law enforcement agencies in states with high seizures or precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories and laboratory dump seizures. • These funds shall be used for investigative purposes to locate or investigate illicit activities, including precursor diversion, laboratories or methamphetamine traffickers.

Collaborative Reform The CRI-TAC is here to help. • Tailored, scalable solutions • Informed by cutting-edge innovation and evidence-based and promising practices • Designed in a collaborative manner with the agency • Delivered by subject matter experts from the field • No cost to the requesting agency Services Provided • Resource Referral • Web-based Training • In-person Training • Virtual Mentoring • On-Site Consultation Visit www. Collaborative. Reform. org for more information and to request assistance.

2018 Timeline 2018 Budget Enacted (in March) Grants Open Deadlines!

COPS Resources • • • Problem specific guides Multiple resources by topic Short Publications Studies Electronic newsletter Podcasts

Additional Information COPS Office website www. cops. usdoj. gov COPS Office Response Center Shannon Long (800) 421 -6770 (202) 514 -2064 COPS Office E-mail Address askcopsrc@usdoj. gov Shannon. long@usdoj. gov COPS Office Mailing Address COPS Office 145 N Street, NE Washington, D. C. 20530