Kaptur Applauds COPS Grants For Cleveland and Toledo

WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 27, 2013) -- Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur welcomed the announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice that Cleveland and Toledo each will receive $1.25 million from the COPS Hiring Program.
 
The funding will cover 10 officers for each department.
 
The COPS Grant program will provide 75 percent funding for approved entry-level salaries and benefits for a three-year period for newly-hired, full-time sworn officer positions, including filling existing unfunded vacancies, or for rehired officers who have been laid off or scheduled to be laid off as a result of local budget cuts.
 
CHP provides funding to address the full-time sworn officer needs of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies nationwide.
 
CHP grants go directly to law enforcement agencies to hire new and/or rehire career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts. 
 
Priority consideration was given to agencies that requested officer positions in order to deploy school resource officers, committed to hiring military veterans and/or focused on homicide or gun violence.