Law Enforcement Agency

FY25 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) Implementation Projects

LEMHWA funds are used to improve the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness services for law enforcement officers through the implementation of peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, and other promising practices for wellness programs.

FY25 Community Policing Development: Supporting Agencies Seeking Accreditation

Community Policing Development (CPD) funds are used 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.

Fiscal Year 2025 COPS Hiring Program

The Fiscal Year 2025 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) is a competitive award program designed 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.

Initiatives that Support Law Enforcement

With this non-competitive solicitation, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) seeks to request applications from 6 cooperative agreement recipients that have been previously funded to support training and technical assistance and/or projects that support law enforcement innovation and crime reduction.

Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Support for Law Enforcement Agencies

This competitive grant program seeks to promote safe outcomes during police encounters with persons in crisis through training in de-escalation tactics, crisis intervention team participation, and safely responding to an individual experiencing a mental or behavioral health or suicidal crisis

Safer Outcomes: Enhancing De-Escalation and Crisis Response Training for Law Enforcement – Curriculum Integration for Law Enforcement Academies and State-Level Training Commissions

This competitive grant program supports law enforcement academy programs that integrate de-escalation and crisis response concepts throughout a curriculum of instruction used to train sworn officer candidates, as well as efforts that integrate de-escalation and crisis response concepts throughout the development of statewide law enforcement training standards.

Community Violence Prevention Resources for Action

The CDC provides resources and guidance materials on community violence prevention.

Promoting Access to Crisis Teams – Community Policing Development

This competitive grant program provides funds 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.

School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP)

This competitive grant program provides funding to improve security at schools, including funding for metal detectors, lighting, locks, and other deterrent measures, training for law enforcement officers, and technology for expedited notification of law enforcement officers.

Community Policing Development Microgrants Program

This competitive grant program helps develop the capacity of law enforcement to implement community policing strategies, including funding for targeted community-based violence intervention.

Community Policing Development (CPD) Program

This competitive grant program provides funding to law enforcement agencies to implement community policing strategies including crisis intervention teams, de-escalation training, and tolerance, diversity and anti-bias training.

Patrick Leahy Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program

This program reimburses states, units of local government, and federally recognized Indian tribes for up to 50 percent of the cost of body armor vests purchased for law enforcement officers.

Community Relations Service

The Community Relations Service provides guidance for communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability, providing facilitated dialogue, mediation, training, and consultation to assist these communities to come together, develop solutions to the conflict, and enhance their capacity to independently prevent and resolve future conflict.

Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center (CRI_TAC)

This competitive grant program provides funds to state, local and tribal law enforcement and correctional entities to develop and implement crisis response training programs and form partnerships with mental health, substance abuse disorder, and community service agencies to improve appropriate and effective responses to individuals in crisis who have behavioral health conditions, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, or physical disabilities and to achieve safe outcomes for all individuals in the community.

Mass Violence Advisory Initiative (MVAI)

The MVAI is a collaboration between the BJA and the International Association of Chiefs of Police that provides peer-to-peer assistance to law enforcement leaders related to preparation, response and recovery efforts for mass violence and mass casualty events.

BJA National Training Technical Assistance (NTTAC)

BJA’s NTTAC provides no-cost training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices, corrections departments, and city or county commissioners on a variety of criminal justice issues including in-person and virtual instruction. Issues covered include implementing community-based violence intervention strategies.

Virtual Reality De-escalation Site-Based Initiative

This competitive grant program provides funds for state, local, campus, and tribal law enforcement to enhance training via the utilization of fully immersive virtual reality-based technology. The training seeks to improve responses to individuals in crisis and improve the de-escalation skills of participants.

National Public Safety Partnership—Capacity Building Grant Limited Competition Grant Solicitation

This competitive grant program provides state/local prosecutors and local law enforcement agencies who have participated in the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP) with funding to secure necessary resources identified in the PSP program assessments that will help reduce crime and increase public safety and trust in the criminal justice system.

Smart Policing Initiative Grant Program

This competitive grant program provides funding to support innovative and evidence-based policing practices, more effective information sharing, and multiagency collaboration under the Smart Policing Initiative Program.

Luke and Alex School Safety Act – SchoolSafety.gov

The Luke and Alex School Safety Act, which was part of BSCA, created a Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety Evidence-based Practices within DHS (SchoolSafety.gov) that publishes evidence-based practices and recommendations to improve school safety for use by states, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, state and local law enforcement agencies, health professionals, and the general public. Schoolsafety.gov also provides a grant tracker for school safety grant funds.

Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative (CGIC)

This competitive grant program provides funds to areas experiencing increases in gun-related violent crime to help them work with ATF to utilize intelligence, technology, and community engagement to swiftly identify unlawfully used firearms and their sources and effectively prosecute perpetrators engaged in violent crime.

Byrne Discretionary Grants Program

This program provides Congressionally-earmarked funds to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system and to combat juvenile delinquency.