the Armed Forces to serve as career law enforce-
ment officers for deployment in community-oriented 
policing, particularly in communities that are ad-
versely affected by a recent military base closing. 
‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, ‘former 
member of the Armed Forces’ means a member of 
the Armed Forces of the United States who has 
been honorably discharged from the Armed Forces 
of the United States. 
‘‘(d) COMMUNITY PROSECUTORS PROGRAM.—The 
Attorney General may make grants under subsection (a) 
to pay for additional community prosecuting programs, in-
cluding programs that assign prosecutors to— 
‘‘(1) handle cases from specific geographic 
areas; and 
‘‘(2) address counter-terrorism problems, spe-
cific violent crime problems (including intensive ille-
gal gang, gun, and drug enforcement) and quality of 
life initiatives, and localized violent and other crime 
problems based on needs identified by local law en-
forcement agencies, community organizations, and 
others. 
‘‘(e) TECHNOLOGY GRANTS.—The Attorney General 
may make grants under subsection (a) to develop and use 
new technologies (including interoperable communications
technologies, modernized criminal record technology, and 
forensic technology) to assist State and local law enforce-
ment agencies in reorienting the emphasis of their activi-
ties from reacting to crime to preventing crime and to 
train law enforcement officers to use such technologies.’’; 
(7) in subsection (f), as so redesignated— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘to 
States, units of local government, Indian tribal 
governments, and to other public and private 
entities,’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘define 
for State and local governments, and other pub-
lic and private entities,’’ and inserting ‘‘estab-
lish’’; 
(C) in the first sentence of paragraph (3), 
by inserting ‘‘(including regional community po-
licing institutes)’’ after ‘‘training centers or fa-
cilities’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) EXCLUSIVITY.—The Office of Community 
Oriented Policing Services shall be the exclusive 
component of the Department of Justice to perform 
the functions and activities specified in this part.’’; 
(8) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘may utilize any component’’, and all that
follows and inserting ‘‘shall use the Office of Com-
munity Oriented Policing Services of the Depart-
ment of Justice in carrying out this part.’’; 
(9) in subsection (h), as so redesignated— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ the first 
place that term appears and inserting ‘‘para-
graphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b)’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘in each fiscal year pursu-
ant to subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘in each 
fiscal year for purposes described in paragraph 
(1) and (2) of subsection (b)’’; 
(10) in subsection (i), as so redesignated— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the Federal share shall 
decrease from year to year for up to 5 years’’ 
and inserting ‘‘unless the Attorney General 
waives the non-Federal contribution require-
ment as described in the preceding sentence, 
the non-Federal share of the costs of hiring or 
rehiring such officers may be less than 25 per-
cent of such costs for any year during the grant 
period, provided that the non-Federal share of 
such costs shall not be less than 25 percent in 
the aggregate for the entire grant period, but 
the State or local government should make an
effort to increase the non-Federal share of such 
costs during the grant period’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ‘‘The preceding sentences shall not 
apply with respect to any program, project, or 
activity provided by a grant made pursuant to 
subsection (b)(4).’’; and 
(11) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(j) RETENTION
OF ADDITIONAL OFFICER POSI-
TIONS.—For any grant under paragraph (1) or (2) of sub-
section (b) for hiring or rehiring career law enforcement 
officers, a grant recipient shall retain each additional law 
enforcement officer position created under that grant for 
not less than 12 months after the end of the period of 
that grant, unless the Attorney General waives, wholly or 
in part, the retention requirement of such grant. 
‘‘(k) TREATMENT OF GRANT FOR HIRING CIVILIAN 
FORENSIC ANALYSTS AND LABORATORY PERSONNEL.— 
A grant awarded under this section for hiring and rehiring 
of civilian forensic analysts and laboratory personnel (in 
accordance with paragraph (17) of subsection (b)) shall 
be subject to the same treatment, limitations, and renewal 
requirements under this part as grants awarded under this 
section for hiring and rehiring of career law enforcement