Law Enforcement / Community Policing
FY25 COPS Blue Alert Program
The FY25 COPS Blue Alert Program seeks applications from organizations to support the COPS Office in coordinating the Blue Alert system. The primary objectives of the cooperative agreement to be funded under this funding opportunity are to support states participating in the National Blue Alert Network and to raise awareness, educate, and inform non-Blue Alert states of the Blue Alert Network (e.g., production of an educational video, factsheets, newsletters, presentations, etc.), provide monthly summaries of Blue Alert activations throughout the country, including detailed accounts of heroism involving Blue Alert events, and research, gather, and compile accurate and timely information, from credible sources, about all reported incidents where on duty law enforcement throughout the United States, territories, and tribal lands are shot in the line of duty.
FY25 Community Policing Development: Law Enforcement Products and Resources
The FY 2025 CPD Law Enforcement Products and Resources program will fund projects that will develop products and resources for national distribution and offer creative ideas to uplift the image of the law enforcement profession, advance crime fighting, or support community policing efforts through community engagement, problem solving or organizational change.
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 (CPD) Accreditation: Enhancing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities
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.
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.
FY25 Collaborative Reform Initiative: Organizational Assessment and Critical Response
Collaborative Reform Initiative (CRI) program funds are used to highlight best practices of law enforcement agencies and the many ways they are protecting Americans; enhance officer safety and wellness; build agencies’ capacity for self-improvement; and promote community policing practices nationwide. This Notice of Funding Opportunity seeks applicants for the Critical Response and Organizational Assessment programs only.
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.
NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence for Criminal Justice Purposes
This funding opportunity seeks to support research and evaluation that advances the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the criminal justice system. The goal is to improve the fairness, accuracy, and effectiveness of criminal justice processes through AI applications in crime prevention, public safety, and justice system decision-making.
NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Nexus with Firearms and Violence
This funding opportunity seeks applications for rigorous applied research on drugs and crime to inform the development of evidence-based tools, practices, and policies for state, tribal, and local law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies that address drug trafficking, drug markets, and drug-related violence. The FY25 research priority is firearms — the intersection of drug crimes and firearm offenses in trends, interdiction, and prosecution, and efforts to disrupt those criminal activities and related violence.
BJA FY25 National Initiatives: Justice and Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Program
This funding opportunity seeks to fund training and technical assistance (TTA) programs for three national initiatives supporting justice and mental health programs. Categories include collaborative crisis response and intervention training program TTA; Law enforcement behavioral health response program TTA; and Justice and mental health collaboration program TTA.
NIJ FY25 Research and Evaluation of Policing Practices
This funding opportunity seeks rigorous, applied evaluative research on: (1) police conduct and police-community interactions; (2) officer safety, health, and wellness; (3) criminal investigations; and (4) alternative traffic enforcement models.
FY25 U.S. Department of Justice Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation
This funding opportunity seeks to provide funding to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. This provides federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia an opportunity to apply for funding to aid in developing a comprehensive and coordinated approach to public safety.
COPS Office Invitational Program
This program will provide funding to for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations 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.
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 – Expansion of Regional De-Escalation Training Centers
This competitive grant program supports training centers seeking to provide de-escalation and crisis response training for law enforcement in a multistate region.
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.
Improving Criminal Justice Response (ICJR) Program
This competitive grant program assists state, local, and Tribal governments, and courts to improve the criminal justice response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking as serious violations of criminal law, and to seek safety and autonomy for victims.
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.
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.
Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS)
This competitive grant program provides funding to federally recognized tribes and tribal consortia to improve public safety and victim services in tribal communities. Purpose areas may allow for eligible school safety expenses including the hiring of School Resource Officers and the development of, or to enhance existing, school-involved Youth Healing to Wellness Courts.
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.
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.