WASHINGTON, DC – Today, during National Police Week, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced that deadlines are fast approaching for a series of federal grant opportunities to support local law enforcement agencies. These federal grants are designed to provide law enforcement agencies with funding to hire more officers, implement innovative strategies to fight crime, incentivize community policing, stop the flow of illicit drugs, and more.
“Delivering the federal funding Nevada law enforcement agencies need to hire more officers, fight crime, and keep our communities safe is a top priority,” said Senator Rosen. “That’s why I’ve proudly worked across party lines in Congress to secure funding for law enforcement in Nevada. During National Police Week, I’m encouraging all eligible departments across our state to apply for these grant opportunities ahead of their deadlines.”
Senator Rosen has been a strong supporter of ensuring Nevada law enforcement agencies have the resources needed to protect their communities. Earlier this year, she secured over $7 million for law enforcement projects across Nevada through the Fiscal Year 2024 government funding bill. Last year, Senator Rosen secured millions for law enforcement and first responders in the 2023 funding bill, ensuring these critical funds were delivered to communities across the state. Senator Rosen also helped pass the bipartisan Recruit and Retain Act in the Senate, which establishes a federal pipeline program supporting more collaboration between local law enforcement and schools to hire and retain more police officers.
Information about the available grant funding programs is found below:
Promoting Access to Crisis Teams (formerly CIT) – A grant program to provide funding to support the implementation of crisis intervention teams, including embedding behavioral or mental health professionals with law enforcement agencies, training for law enforcement officers and embedded behavioral or mental health professionals in crisis intervention response, or a combination of these.
Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants – A grant program to implement demonstration or pilot projects that offer creative ideas to advance crime fighting, community engagement, problem solving, or organizational changes in support of community policing.
COPS Hiring Program (CHP) – A grant program to provide funding directly 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.
COPS Anti-Methamphetamine Program (CAMP) – A competitive award program designed to advance public safety by providing funds directly to state law enforcement agencies in states with high seizures of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories, and laboratory dump seizures for the purpose of locating or investigating illicit activities such as precursor diversion, laboratories, or methamphetamine traffickers.
Community Policing Development (CPD) Law Enforcement Products and Resources Program – A grant program to develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies by providing guidance on promising practices through the development and testing of innovative strategies; building knowledge about effective practices and outcomes; and supporting new, creative approaches to preventing crime and promoting safe communities.
COPS Anti-Heroin Task Force (AHTF) Program – A competitive award program designed to advance public safety by providing funds directly to state law enforcement agencies in states with high per capita rates of primary treatment admissions for the purpose of locating or investigating illicit activities through statewide collaboration relating to the distribution of heroin, fentanyl, or carfentanil, or to the unlawful distribution of prescription opioids.
School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) – A grant program to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the jurisdiction of the grantee through evidence-based school safety programs and technology.
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