U.S. Department of Justice

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

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2023 COPS Office Blue Alert Program

The COPS Office administers the National Blue Alert Network, a voluntary nationwide system to give authorities an early 

warning of threats against law enforcement and to aid in the apprehension of suspects who have killed or seriously injured an 

officer or deputy. The FY23 COPS Office Blue Alert program seeks applications from organizations to support the COPS Office 

with coordinating the Blue Alert system. The primary objectives of the cooperative agreement to be funded under this solicitation are to raise awareness of the Blue Alert system through the production of an educational video and to research, gather, 

and comile accurate and timely information from credible sources about all reported incidents where on-duty law enforcement 

rhought the United States, territories, and tribal lands are shot in the line of duty. Up to $130,000 is available for this cooperative agreement.

Funding provisions

 This solicitation is open to all public governmental agencies, for-profit (commercial) organizations, nonprofit 

organizations, institutions of higher education, community groups, and faith-based organizations. For-profit 

organizations (as well as other recipients) must forgo any 

profit or management fee.

 There is no requirement for cost sharing or a local match 

for this award.

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services 

(COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of 

Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community 

policing by the nation’s state, local, territorial, and tribal 

law enforcement agencies through information and grant 

resources. The COPS Office has been appropriated more 

than $20 billion to advance community policing, including 

grants awarded to more than 13,000 state, local and tribal 

law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of more than 136,000 officers. COPS Office information resources, covering a wide range of community policing 

topics such as school and campus safety, violent crime, and 

officer safety and wellness, can be downloaded via the COPS 

Office’s home page, https://cops.usdoj.gov.

April 2023

WHEN: Deadline for first part of application 

in Grants.gov is June 14, 2023, at 

4:59 p.m. ET. Deadline for completed 

application in JustGrants is June 21, 

2023, at 4:59 p.m. ET.

Start EARLY. Each of these is more 

than a one-day process.

WHERE: 1. Register at www.grants.gov.

2. Complete the application 

in the JustGrants Justice 

Grants System.

HOW: Online only. No hard copies sent 

by U.S. Mail or electronic copies 

sent via email.
2

How to Apply

Step 1. Confirm your entity's System of Award Management (SAM) registration information. Register with 

SAM or confirm that your SAM registration is active and 

accurate. 

Step 2. Confirm that the contact information (name and 

email address) for your entity's electronic business point 

of contact (E-Biz POC) in SAM is accurate.

Step 3. Register with Grants.gov or confirm your existing registration. 

Step 4. Submit the first part of your application in 

Grants.gov. Deadline to complete this step is June 14, 2023.

Step 5. Onboard your agency to the JustGrants Justice 

Grants System.

Step 6. Complete and submit the second part of your 

application in JustGrants (https://justicegrants.usdoj.gov).

Further instructions and explanations of the application 

process can be found on the COPS Office website at 

https://cops.usdoj.gov.

Complete application packages for the FY 2023 Blue Alert 

solicitation are due by June 21, 2023, at 4:59 p.m. ET.

April 2023

2023 COPS Office Blue Alert Program

For more information about the COPS Office Blue 

Alert program, please contact the COPS Office 

Response Center by phone at 800-421-6770 or by 

email at askCOPSRC@usdoj.gov.

Contact the COPS Office