FY25 Community Policing Development Invitational | O COPS 2025 172408

Opportunity Information: Apply for O COPS 2025 172408

The FY25 Community Policing Development Invitational is a discretionary federal funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (the COPS Office). It supports the Community Policing Development (CPD) program, which is designed to strengthen the ability of law enforcement agencies and their partners to implement community policing (also referred to in the materials as "common sense policing"). The central purpose is capacity-building: developing and spreading practical guidance on promising practices, testing and refining innovative strategies, building evidence and knowledge about what works, and encouraging new approaches that prevent crime and promote safer communities.

This opportunity uses a cooperative agreement funding instrument (CFDA 16.710), which typically means the COPS Office expects to have substantial involvement in the project during the award period (for example, through collaboration on project direction, deliverables, and oversight). The program emphasizes innovation and learning, aiming to produce outcomes, tools, strategies, or tested models that can be shared beyond a single jurisdiction to improve community policing practice more broadly.

Eligibility is limited in a very specific way: only applicants that have received a direct invitation from the COPS Office may apply, making this an invitational competition rather than an open solicitation. The listing shows the eligible applicant type as "Others," but the invitation requirement is the controlling factor, so organizations without an invitation would not be able to compete for the award.

The COPS Office allows projects in which two or more entities participate, but only one organization may apply as the official applicant. That lead applicant is expected to carry primary responsibility for the entire award, including financial administration, overall project management, and ensuring compliance with federal requirements. If other entities will carry out part of the project, they must be identified as subrecipients in the application, and the same award terms and conditions flow down to them. The notice also highlights the compliance distinction between subawards (financial assistance to carry out a portion of the federal program) and procurement contracts (purchasing goods or services needed for the project). Applicants are directed to the federal guidance at 2 C.F.R. 200.331 to help determine whether a partner relationship should be structured as a subrecipient arrangement or as a contractor relationship.

The program notes that awards will align with current Executive Orders and Attorney General memoranda connected to the Administration's public safety priorities. These priorities include reestablishing law and order, increasing hiring and retention of state and local sworn officers, strengthening collaboration between state/local agencies and federal task forces, cracking down on open use of illegal drugs, disrupting fentanyl and other dangerous drug distribution, preventing crime, supporting nuisance abatement, countering human trafficking and child smuggling, and enhancing immigration enforcement and border security. As with most federal grant programs, awards are subject to the availability of appropriated funds and may be affected by new legal requirements or additional conditions.

Key administrative details from the listing include the opportunity number O-COPS-2025-172408, an application deadline of June 24, 2025, and an anticipated single award (expected awards: 1). The maximum award amount (ceiling) is $1,500,000. The funding activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services, and the administering agency is the Community Oriented Policing Services.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY25 Community Policing Development Invitational" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.710.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-05-16.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-06-24. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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