FY26 Community Policing Development (CPD) Microgrants

About This Grant

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing and the Administration’s priority of Making America Safe Again by supporting the nation’s state, local, territorial and Tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Community Policing Development: Microgrants Program. Community Policing Development (CPD): Microgrants program funds are used to fund demonstration or pilot projects to be implemented by local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to increase their capacity to implement innovative or evidence-based projects that improve officer and public safety. These projects should offer creative ideas to advance crime fighting, increase organizational effectiveness, and promote community safety. The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing and the Administration’s priority of Making America Safe Again by supporting the nation’s state, local, territorial and Tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources. This is a notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the FY26 Community Policing Development: Microgrants Program. Community Policing Development (CPD): Microgrants program funds are used to fund demonstration or pilot projects to be implemented by local, state, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies to increase their capacity to implement innovative or evidence-based projects that improve officer and public safety. These projects should offer creative ideas to advance crime fighting, increase organizational effectiveness, and promote community safety. Applicants are invited to propose demonstration or pilot projects in one of eleven areas: -Preventing and investigating domestic terrorism -Violent crime enforcement and investigations -Gang violence enforcement and investigations -Detecting and investigating human trafficking -Investigating and interrupting child exploitation -Vagrancy and squatting -Immigration and border security -Investigating and interrupting opioid and drug markets -Officer recruitment, hiring, and retention -Unmanned aerial systems -Investigating and interrupting cybercrime The COPS Office encourages agencies to propose partnerships with other law enforcement entities through taskforces and other formal operational arrangements to address the chosen area of focus, as well as with relevant stakeholders. The COPS Office also encourages agencies to consider including evaluation components appropriate to the type of activities proposed. Applicants should explain in their application how their approach addresses a specific public safety need or gap in services. Applicants may submit multiple applications but must submit a separate application for each project. Any applicant that selects the incorrect category may not pass the basic minimum requirement phase of the review process. See the Eligible Applicants section for eligibility details. As community policing is common sense policing, throughout the FY26 Community Policing Development: Microgrants Program NOFO materials, the terms “community policing” and “common sense policing” are used interchangeably, unless otherwise specified. All awards are subject to the availability of appropriated funds and any modifications or additional requirements that may be imposed by law.