FY24 Addressing Gaps in State and Regional Accreditation -Community Policing Development Solicitation | O COPS 2024 172057

Opportunity Information: Apply for O COPS 2024 172057

The FY24 Addressing Gaps in State and Regional Accreditation - Community Policing Development (CPD) Solicitation is a discretionary federal funding opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). The COPS Office focuses on strengthening community policing across state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement by offering both grant funding and practical resources. Through this particular CPD solicitation, the agency is targeting a specific need: helping states and multi-state regions that currently lack a formal law enforcement accreditation program create new accreditation entities.

At its core, this program sits within the broader Community Policing Development (CPD) purpose, which is to build law enforcement capacity to carry out community policing strategies more effectively. CPD funding is typically aimed at expanding knowledge about what works in policing by supporting promising practices, developing and testing innovative approaches, and producing guidance that can be shared and replicated. In this solicitation, the practical outcome COPS is looking for is the creation of new accreditation bodies or systems in places where no state or regional accreditation infrastructure currently exists, with the idea that accreditation can help standardize practices, strengthen accountability, and promote professional policing aligned with community policing principles.

The award mechanism for this opportunity is a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates that the federal agency expects to have substantial involvement during the project period compared to a standard grant. The opportunity is listed under the Law, Justice and Legal Services funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 16.710.

Eligibility is broad and includes public governmental agencies, federally recognized Indian tribes, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and community groups. This wide eligibility suggests COPS is open to different types of applicants that have the credibility, operational capacity, and stakeholder relationships to stand up an accreditation entity and help it function in a sustainable way, including organizations that can convene law enforcement partners, develop standards or processes, and support adoption across jurisdictions.

Key funding details include an award ceiling of $500,000 per award and an anticipated three total awards. The funding opportunity number is O-COPS-2024-172057. The solicitation was created on March 28, 2024, and the original application closing date was May 28, 2024.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY24 Addressing Gaps in State and Regional Accreditation -Community Policing Development Solicitation" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.710.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-28.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-05-28. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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