FY22 Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies in Seeking Accreditation -Community Policing Development Solicitation | O COPS 2022 171171

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The FY22 Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies in Seeking Accreditation - 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). It is designed to strengthen law enforcement agencies by helping expand community policing capacity, particularly through projects that support agencies pursuing accreditation and adopting stronger organizational practices. The overall frame of the program is community policing, meaning a practical, agency-wide approach that relies on partnerships with the community and problem-solving methods to address the conditions that drive public safety concerns like violent crime, nonviolent crime, and fear of crime.

This opportunity emphasizes that CPD funding is not just about day-to-day operations, but about building the field's long-term ability to implement effective community policing strategies. The solicitation supports work that develops and tests innovative approaches, identifies and spreads promising practices, and produces useful knowledge products that agencies can apply. Alongside crime prevention and community safety goals, the COPS Office highlights priorities tied to civil rights and racial equity, access to justice, support for crime victims and people impacted by the justice system, and building trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. The program 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, with awards contingent on appropriated funding and any legal requirements that may apply.

The solicitation is structured as an open competition. Applicants are allowed to submit more than one application, but each proposed project must be submitted as its own separate application. A basic but important compliance point is that applications need to clearly identify the solicitation they are responding to; if they do not, they risk failing the initial screening. Award recipients are expected to begin work quickly once they are selected and notified, which means proposals should be realistic about readiness, timelines, staffing, and immediate startup activities.

A central expectation of the program is the production of deliverables that follow COPS Office requirements and review processes. Any training or curriculum-related materials must align with the COPS Office Curriculum Standards and Review Process Guides (referenced at https://cops.usdoj.gov/training). If a project involves conferences or convenings, it must follow the COPS Office conference request approval process. Written products are expected to align with the COPS Office Editorial and Style Manual, reinforcing that the goal is to produce consistent, usable guidance for the field. For proposals that involve site-specific work with particular agencies, letters of support from those targeted agencies are strongly encouraged to show buy-in and feasibility.

In terms of what the COPS Office wants applicants to produce, the solicitation calls for projects that identify and expand promising practices and create knowledge products grounded in the principles of "good guidance." That guidance should be quality-driven (practical and action-oriented, helping reduce inconsistency in performance), evidence-based (aligned with the best available research, ideally informed by systematic review), accessible (plain language, reasonable length, and directly relevant to practitioners), and memorable (structured so that busy professionals can recall and apply it in real situations). Applicants are also directed to use established COPS Office community policing concepts, including the publication Community Policing Defined, and to consider COPS Office performance measures when shaping project goals and activities.

Key administrative details included in the source information are that the opportunity number is O-COPS-2022-171171, the CFDA number is 16.710, and the activity category is Law, Justice and Legal Services. The posting lists an award ceiling of $4,175,000 and anticipates around 21 awards. The opportunity was created May 5, 2022, with an original closing date of June 21, 2022. Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others" with clarification expected in the solicitation's eligibility section. For questions during the application process, the COPS Office directs applicants to its Response Center (800-421-6770) or AskCopsRC@usdoj.gov during business hours (9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, weekdays excluding federal holidays).

• The Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY22 Supporting Law Enforcement Agencies in Seeking Accreditation -Community Policing Development 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 $4,175,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 21 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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