Department of Justice · Public Facilities
COPS Hiring Program (CHP)
Funds hiring of new or rehiring of career law enforcement officers, including school resource officers and community-policing positions. Cities, counties, and tribal departments eligible.
Whether your city can win this comes down to hard rules — population, designation, match capacity. Run your city and our AI checks it against the rules below in about 8 minutes.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $125K – $5M
- Non-federal match
- 25% (verify basis)
- Eligible entity
- U.S. cities & local governments
- Application window
- Annual NOFO.
- Typical prep time
- 6–12 weeks
- Statutory authority
- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 §10001 (34 U.S.C. §10381)
Who is eligible for COPS Hiring Program (CHP)?
These are the hard rules we check against. If one fails, the program is ineligible — the AI never overrides a rule.
- Cities are eligible applicants.
Up to ~$125K federal share per officer over 3 years; mandatory 12-month retention beyond grant period. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
Run a city dossier and our AI cross-checks ACS demographics, 5-year USAspending award history, FEMA disaster history, and CEJST/Justice40 + HUD designations against this program's rules. You get a clear eligibility, strategic, and competitive answer — with the city's own hard evidence ready to anchor the narrative — instead of a generic match badge. And if it's a no-go, you'll know before you spend the month.
The dossier isn't the AI's guesswork — eligibility is decided by the rules, and the numbers come straight from official sources. The answer your reviewer will check line by line.
No credit card. 30-day trial, 3 dossiers, 1 seat.
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- Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling (SWIFR) Grant Program (EPA)$500K – $15M
- Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement (HUD)$500K – $30M
- Section 108 Loan Guarantee (HUD)$1M – $100M
- Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program (USDA Rural Development)$50K – $50M
- EDA Public Works Program (EDA)$600K – $30M
Award ranges, match percentages, and windows are approximate.