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Applying for COPS Funding
The COPS Office has distributed over eight billion dollars to advance
community policing since it was created in 1994. This funding supports a wide
range of activities. COPS funding helps local law enforcement agencies hire,
equip, and train new community policing professionals. COPS funding helps
redeploy existing officers into their communities and studies ways to maximize
the impact they have on the people who live there. COPS funds a wide variety of
strategies to advance community policing through innovative techniques and
technologies. In order to use this funding to advance community policing in your
jurisdiction, however, you have to apply for it. This section outlines who can
apply for COPS funding and what funding is currently available.
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