The Hendry County Sheriffs Department received a grant award of $904,895 to hire 5 officers through the Cops Hiring Program.
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.
This year’s CHP grants provide 75 percent funding for approved entry-level salaries and benefits for three years for newly-hired, full-time sworn officer positions (including filling existing unfunded vacancies) or for rehired officers who have been laid off, or are scheduled to be laid off on a future date, as a result of local budget cuts.
Any additional costs above the approved entry-level salaries and fringe benefits, up to $125,000, are the responsibility of the grantee agency.
The COPS Office today also announced more than $8 million in funding for the Community Policing Development (CPD) grant program. CPD funds are used to advance the practice of community policing in law enforcement agencies through training and technical assistance, the development of innovative community policing strategies, applied research, guidebooks, and best practices that are national in scope.
Just what we need more cops, as if America isn't already a police state. You can't go a block without law enforcement around. Maybe we have too many laws and private prison lobbyist. What a waste of money and sad state of affairs.
ReplyDeleteOver $60,000 a year per officer per year, plus a car, radios, equipment, training, etc. What a boondoggle.
ReplyDeletehey more to sit at the corner under the tree watching for seatbelt violations, not like they will go oh I dont know patrol a neighborhood or get out of the car an walk around one. Oh no, protect an serve my ass, more like obey an fear me..... police are not what they used to be 30 years ago.
ReplyDeleteWell the people keep electing the same leaders over and over. Maybe the people should get off their backside and make a change. Vote and make a change or quite bitching.
ReplyDeleteOr easier yet term limits and no lobbyist
ReplyDeleteMy congrats for finding $ to add manpower. You nay sayers will appreciate it when you're about to be victimized.
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