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, specific 
violent crime problems (including intensive illegal 
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 activities 
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 en-
tities,’’; 
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(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 com-
ponent of the Department of Justice to perform the 
functions and activities specified in this part.’’; 
(8) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by strik-
ing ‘‘may utilize any component’’, and all that fol-
lows and inserting ‘‘shall use the Office of Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services of the Department 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 fis-
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cal 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 de-
crease from year to year for up to 5 years’’ and 
inserting ‘‘unless the Attorney General waives 
the non-Federal contribution requirement as de-
scribed in the preceding sentence, the non-Fed-
eral share of the costs of hiring or rehiring such 
officers may be less than 25 percent 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 gov-
ernment 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-
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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 FO-
RENSIC
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 re-
quirements under this part as grants awarded under this 
section for hiring and rehiring of career law enforcement 
personnel (in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
subsection (b)).’’. 
(b) APPLICATIONS.—Section 1702 of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 
3796dd–1) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by inserting ‘‘, unless waived by the Attorney 
General’’ after ‘‘under this part shall’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘share of 
the cost’’ and all that follows and inserting 
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