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Grants
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The Department offers funding opportunities to conduct research,
to support law enforcement activities in state and local jurisdictions,
to provide training and technical assistance, and to implement
programs that improve the criminal justice system.
The Office of Justice
Programs offers federal financial assistance to scholars,
practitioners, experts, and state and local governments and
agencies. Many of the program bureaus and offices award formula
grants to state agencies, which, in turn, subgrant funds to
units of state and local government. Discretionary grant funds
are announced in the Federal Register or through program solicitations
that can also be found through bureau and OJP Websites. Funding
Opportunities at OJP provides links to application kits,
current funding opportunities listed by source, the Grants
Management System (GMS), and the GMS Application Procedures
Handbook, a step-by-step guide to applying for grants online.
The Community Oriented
Policing Services Office (COPS) offers grants to help
law enforcement agencies to hire more community policing officers,
to acquire new technologies and equipment, to hire civilians
for administrative tasks, and to promote innovative approaches
to solving crime. Current
funding opportunities.
The Department of Justice Response Center provides
assistance and answers inquiries from the public, law enforcement
agencies, institutions, and grantees about grants and programs,
funding opportunities, and grant-management related questions.
It provides application kits and assistance for grants available
from the Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and from the Office
of Justice Programs (OJP) – which includes the Bureau
of Justice Assistance (BJA), Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS), National
Institute of Justice (NIJ), Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP),
and Office for Victims
of Crime (OVC). Person to person assistance is available
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (EST) Monday – Friday. Messages may
be left after hours and calls will be returned the next business
day. A 24-hour fax-on-demand service is also available.
The Response Center's Toll-Free Number: (800) 421-6770
Washington, DC Metropolitan Area: (202) 307-1480
Fax: (202) 616-8594
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