FY25 Community Policing Development: Law Enforcement Products and Resources | O COPS 2025 172390

Opportunity Information: Apply for O COPS 2025 172390

The FY25 Community Policing Development (CPD): Law Enforcement Products and Resources opportunity is a discretionary federal funding program run by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). The program uses cooperative agreements to support projects that create practical, field-focused law enforcement products and resources intended for national distribution. The overall aim is to strengthen community policing (also referred to in the materials as "common sense policing") by producing guidance and tools that help agencies prevent crime, improve public safety, and support a positive image of policing.

This funding is specifically meant for developing and sharing resources that translate promising practices into usable outputs. Supported work can include developing products that provide guidance on effective approaches, testing and documenting innovative strategies, and building knowledge about what works and what outcomes result. The emphasis is on creative, useful deliverables that help law enforcement advance crime fighting, community engagement, problem solving, and organizational change in ways that align with community policing principles. In other words, the COPS Office is not just funding operations; it is funding ideas and materials that can be adopted broadly across jurisdictions.

Applicants are allowed to propose projects where multiple entities participate, but only one organization can be the official applicant and primary award recipient. If partners will help carry out the project, they must be identified as subrecipients, and the main applicant remains responsible for administering funds, managing the full project, and ensuring compliance across the entire effort. The notice also highlights the importance of properly classifying relationships: subawards are for partners carrying out a substantive portion of the programmatic work, while contracts are for procurement of goods and services needed to run the project. Applicants are pointed to the federal guidance at 2 C.F.R. 200.331 to help make those determinations, and the award terms and conditions extend to subrecipients as well.

The opportunity notes that future awards will be implemented consistent with applicable Executive Orders and Attorney General memoranda tied to federal priorities around reestablishing law and order. The notice lists areas such as increasing hiring and retention of state and local sworn officers, strengthening collaboration with federal task forces, addressing open use of illegal drugs, disrupting fentanyl and other dangerous drug distribution, preventing crime and supporting nuisance abatement, countering human trafficking and child smuggling, and enhancing immigration enforcement and border security. As with most federal programs, awards depend on the availability of appropriated funds and may include additional legal requirements or changes that apply at the time of award.

Eligibility is broad and includes for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations. State and local governmental entities have an additional compliance requirement tied to 8 U.S.C. 1373, which restricts state and local policies that would prohibit or limit information-sharing with federal or other government entities regarding an individual's citizenship or immigration status. The notice also points applicants to appendices in the FY25 Resource Guide for Community Policing Advancement (CPA) Programs for more detailed guidance.

Key opportunity details include: Funding Opportunity Number O-COPS-2025-172390; CFDA/Assistance Listing 16.710; funding instrument type is a cooperative agreement; activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services; and the agency is the COPS Office. The application closing date is June 24, 2025. The award ceiling is $500,000, and the program anticipates making about 16 awards.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY25 Community Policing Development: Law Enforcement Products and Resources" 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 2025-05-14.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-06-24. (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 16 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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