Law Enforcement / Community Policing
FY26 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program
Through the LEMHWA program, the Department of Justice supports this priority by providing funding directly to state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) law enforcement agencies to implement new or enhance existing programs that offer training and services to support officers emotional and mental health including, counseling programs, peer mentoring, suicide prevention, stress reduction, and police officer family services. As community policing is common sense policing, throughout the FY26 LEMHWA program NOFO materials, the terms “community policing” and “common sense policing” are used interchangeably, unless otherwise specified. The COPS Office seeks to increase the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness services through this NOFO in the following three funding categories: Category 1: FY26 Start-up LEMHWA Implementation Projects • The purpose of this program is to provide funding to law enforcement agencies that do not have established law-enforcement specific mental health and wellness programming. These funds will serve as start-up funding to support the development of new mental health and wellness services and programming for employees of law enforcement agencies and their families. This program also serves to increase grant funding accessibility for small and understaffed departments, especially those in rural communities, to implement mental health and wellness programs. • Implementation of peer support, training, family resources, suicide prevention, stress reduction, clinical support, and other promising practices for wellness programs are highly encouraged. • Agencies that currently offer rudimentary or limited wellness services and are seeking to develop a comprehensive wellness program for their department are encouraged to apply. Category 2: FY26 Enhanced LEMHWA Implementation Projects • The purpose of this program is to provide funding to law enforcement agencies who have current wellness programs in place and are seeking to enhance or expand upon those existing wellness programs. Category 3: FY26 LEMHWA Community of Practice Initiative The purpose of this initiative is to provide support to current and future LEMHWA grantees, that include peer support and technical assistance through the development and facilitation of an innovative forum where grantees can learn from their peers and share promising practices.
FY26 COPS School Violence Prevention Program
This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP). This funding opportunity seeks to provide competitive funding directly to states, units of local government, Indian tribes, and their public agencies to improve security at schools and on school grounds in the recipient’s jurisdiction through evidence-based school safety programs. The COPS Office anticipates that up to $73,000,000 will be available for up to $500,000 per award, with approximately 200 awards anticipated. A local cost share (matching funds) of at least 25 percent in the form of cash is required unless a match waiver is requested and approved, and the period of performance duration will be 36 months, with a period of performance start date of 10/1/26.
BJA FY25 State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program Training and Technical Assistance
This program supports training, technical assistance, and related services dedicated to state, local, and tribal law enforcement and prosecutors to support specialized multiagency terrorism detection, investigation, and interdiction. The purpose of this NOFO is to select an organization(s) to provide critical training and technical assistance services to law enforcement officers and prosecutors who face the evolving and complex challenges presented by international and domestic terror threats.
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 2026 COPS Hiring Program
The purpose of CHP is to fund law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire additional career sworn law enforcement officers/deputies in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. Anticipated outcomes of CHP awards include engagement in planned community partnerships, implementation of projects to analyze and assess problems, implementation of changes to personnel and agency management in support of community policing, and increased capacity of agency to engage in community policing activities.
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
The ICJR Program assists Tribal, state, and local governments and courts to strengthen the criminal justice response to domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking by improving offender accountability, victim safety, homicide reduction, protection-order enforcement, and coordinated law enforcement and prosecutorial action. These sorts of activities treat these offenses as serious violations of criminal law and 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.