FY22 Enhancing Existing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities -Community Policing Development (CPD) Solicitation | O COPS 2022 171170

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The FY22 Enhancing Existing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities - Community Policing Development (CPD) Solicitation is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), aimed at strengthening community policing through the improvement and expansion of law enforcement accreditation-related efforts. The core idea behind the program is that community policing is not a single tactic, but an overall philosophy for how agencies operate: building partnerships with the public and using problem-solving approaches to address the conditions that contribute to crime, disorder, and fear of crime. Through CPD funding, the COPS Office is trying to help the field move from broad concepts to practical, tested approaches that agencies can actually implement, measure, and sustain.

At a practical level, the solicitation funds projects that develop law enforcement capacity to carry out community policing by identifying, developing, testing, and spreading promising practices. The emphasis is on producing useful guidance and knowledge products that help agencies perform more consistently and effectively, rather than reinventing the wheel in isolated jurisdictions. The COPS Office also frames this work within larger priorities that applicants are expected to consider and reflect in their proposals when relevant, including advancing civil rights and racial equity, improving access to justice, supporting crime victims and people affected by the justice system, strengthening community safety, addressing evolving public safety threats, and improving trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

The opportunity is authorized under federal law, including the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (as amended) and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. As with most federal grant programs, awards depend on the availability of appropriated funds and may be subject to additional legal requirements or conditions that apply at the time of award. The COPS Office is running this as an open competition, meaning eligible organizations compete against one another based on the strength of their project design, alignment with program goals, and ability to deliver meaningful results.

Key administrative expectations are clearly stated. Applicants may submit more than one application, but each distinct project requires its own separate submission. Proposals also need to clearly identify the solicitation; if an application does not clearly state the solicitation, it risks failing basic minimum requirements during early screening. Award recipients are expected to begin work quickly after selection and notification, which signals that the COPS Office is looking for applicants that can launch promptly rather than spend long periods ramping up.

Another major theme is standardization and quality control for anything produced with grant funds. Deliverables tied to training content must follow the COPS Office Curriculum Standards and Review Process Guides (available on the COPS Office training site). Deliverables tied to events must comply with the COPS Office conference request approval process. Written products are expected to follow the COPS Office Editorial and Style Manual. For proposals involving site-specific work with particular agencies or jurisdictions, letters of support from the agencies being targeted are strongly encouraged, since they help demonstrate feasibility, buy-in, and access needed to carry out the work.

The program goals focus on producing guidance and other knowledge products that reflect "good guidance" principles, which the solicitation spells out in fairly concrete terms. Funded work should be quality-driven, meaning it should translate into clear action statements that can improve performance and reduce inconsistent practices across agencies. It should be evidence-based, meaning recommendations should align with the best available research identified through systematic review, rather than relying on anecdote or untested assumptions. It should be accessible, using plain language and manageable lengths so the materials are usable for practitioners in the field. Finally, it should be memorable, designed so officers and leaders can recall and apply the guidance quickly in complex real-world situations.

From the listing details provided, this opportunity is cataloged under CFDA 16.710, with the funding instrument listed as a grant and the activity category tied to law, justice, and legal services. The funding opportunity number is O-COPS-2022-171170. The posting indicates an award ceiling of $2,400,000 and anticipates making up to 8 awards. The original closing date shown is June 21, 2022, and the opportunity was created May 5, 2022. Eligibility is summarized as "Others" with clarification referenced in the full eligibility text, which typically means applicants need to check the solicitation for the specific types of organizations that qualify for this particular accreditation-focused CPD initiative.

For support, the solicitation points applicants to the COPS Office Response Center for programmatic questions by phone (800-421-6770) or email (AskCopsRC@usdoj.gov), with standard weekday operating hours excluding federal holidays. Applicants are also encouraged to use COPS Office resources such as the publication Community Policing Defined to align their project approach with established community policing principles, and to consider COPS Office performance measures when building their project goals and activities so that the proposal is set up to report meaningful outputs and outcomes.

• The Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY22 Enhancing Existing Law Enforcement Accreditation Entities -Community Policing Development (CPD) Solicitation" 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 May 05, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 21, 2022. (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 $2,400,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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