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 COPS Funding Opportunities and the New Preparing for Active Shooter Situations (PASS) Program June 2017 | Volume 10 | Issue 6
  The COPS Office FY17 funding solicitation is currently open and approximately **$165 Million** in grants are available to support crime prevention;   increase community policing capacities; and provide training, technical   assistance and support to state, local and tribal law enforcement   across the country.  COPS Office funding opportunities   include a new project solicitation: **Preparing for Active  Shooter Situations (PASS) Program** Up to $7.5 million is available to training providers who  can offer scenario-based, cross-disciplinary active shooter training to law  enforcement and other first responders.   In addition, the program funding provides for supplemental resources to  help officers maintain vital but perishable skills - including tactical  medicine and managing exposure to trauma – through scenario libraries and  e-learning modules.   For more  information, please see COPS Office Grants and Funding or call our response center. State, local and Tribal Law Enforcement agencies are  encouraged to apply for the following funding opportunities: **COPS Hiring Program (CHP)** Approximately **$137  million** in funding is available for FY 2017 CHP. CHP provides funding to  hire and re-hire entry-level career law enforcement officers in order to  preserve jobs, increase community policing capacities and support crime  prevention efforts.  Additional  consideration is giving to agencies who hire veterans and also agencies who  focus on problem areas: Violent Crime, Homeland Security Problems, and Illegal  Immigration. **COP Anti-Heroin Task  Force (AHTF) Program** Approximately $10 million in funding is available to state  law enforcement agencies with multijurisdictional reach and interdisciplinary  team (e.g. task force) structures that have primary authority over state  seizures of heroin and other opioids and use the funds for investigative  purposes to locate or investigate illicit activities related to the  distribution of heroin or the unlawful distribution of prescription opioids. **COPS Anti-Methamphetamine  Program (CAMP) Program** ****
          Approximately $7 million in funding is available to state  law enforcement agencies authorized by law or by a state agency to engage in  (or to supervise) anti-methamphetamine investigative activities.  Awarded funds must be used to investigate  illicit activities related to the manufacture and distribution of  methamphetamine (including precursor diversion, laboratories, or  methamphetamine traffickers). State, local and tribal law enforcement, public governmental  agencies, profit and nonprofit institutions, institutions of higher education,  community groups, and faith-based organizations are encouraged to apply for the  following funding opportunity: **Community Policing  Development (CPD) Program** Approximately $3.5 million in funding is available to  advance community policing through training and technical assistance, the  development of innovative community policing strategies, applied research,  guidebooks, and best practices that are national in scope and responsive to the  solicitation topics. Applicants may select from the following topic areas and  can apply under multiple topics: Cooperative  Partnerships with Federal Law Enforcement to Combat Illegal Immigration
          Field  Initiated law Enforcement Microgrants
          Officer  Safety and Wellness Resources
          Enhancing  Officer Safety Through Increased Respect for Police
          Critical  Response Technical Assistance
          Preparing  for Active Shooter Situations (PASS program)
          Online  Training Development For more information about these funding opportunities or to  apply, please visit the COPS Grants and Funding webpages or call our response center at 800-421-6770. 
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