COPS Community Policing Development Grant Now Open

Community Policing Development (CPD) funds are used to advance the practice of community policing in law enforcement agencies through training and technical assistance, the development of innovative community policing strategies, applied research, guidebooks, and best practices that are national in scope. The COPS Office, a federal provider of innovative, customer-focused resources that address the continuing and emerging needs of those engaged in enhancing public safety through community policing, has designed the CPD solicitation to address critical topics in the law enforcement field by building on the principles of community policing.

Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which 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 is comprised of three key components:

Partnerships
Collaborative partnerships between the law enforcement agency and the individuals and
organizations they serve to develop solutions to problems and increase trust in police.

Organizational Transformation
The alignment of organizational management, structure, personnel, and information
systems to support community partnerships and proactive problem solving.

Problem Solving
The process of engaging in the proactive and systematic examination of identified
problems to develop and evaluate effective responses.

The 2010 CPD grant program has been established to fund projects related to one of the
following topic areas:

• Role of Law Enforcement in Homeland Security (COPS-CPD-2010-1)
• Recruitment and Hiring (COPS-CPD-2010-2)
• Offender Re-Entry and Alternatives to Incarceration (COPS-CPD-2010-3)
• Ethics and Integrity (COPS-CPD-2010-4)
• Drugs (COPS-CPD-2010-5)
• Urban Violence (COPS-CPD-2010-6)
• Children Exposed to Violence (COPS-CPD-2010-7)
• School Based Policing (COPS-CPD-2010-8)
• Tribal Policing (COPS-CPD-2010-9)
• Open (COPS-CPD-2010-10)

In addition, the COPS Office asks that each applicant identify the specific goals that they hope to achieve in one or more of the following categories: developing knowledge, increasing awareness, increasing skills and abilities, increasing practice, and/or institutionalizing practice.

For this program to have the maximum impact, the COPS Office requires that proposals
be national in scope. Initiatives that primarily or solely benefit one or a limited number of
law enforcement agencies or other entities will not be considered for funding. Application narratives are limited to a maximum of 15 double-spaced pages.

All applications for the Community Policing Development Program must be submitted online by June 30, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.  For more information visit, http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2450

Please contact me if you are interested in applying for this grant at amy.freeman@interact911.com