FY26 COPS Hiring Program
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: June 9, 2026
Close date: July 23, 2026
Opportunity ID: 362739
Opportunity number: O-COPS-2026-172611
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Community Oriented Policing Services
Agency code: USDOJ-OJP-COPS
Award floor: $0
Award ceiling: $6,250,000
Cost sharing required: Yes
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Law, Justice and Legal Services
Eligible Applicants
- City or township governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Others
- State governments
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:usdoj_ojp_cops
- category_of_funding_activity:law_justice_and_legal_services
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:true
- eligible_applicants:city_or_township_governments
- eligible_applicants:county_governments
- eligible_applicants:native_american_tribal_governments_federally_recognized
- eligible_applicants:others
- eligible_applicants:state_governments
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing and supporting the Administration’s priority of Making America Safe Again by the nation’s state, local, territorial and Tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. 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.