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OFFICE OF COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES
Recovery $2 millionU.S. Department of Justice COPS ProgramIn April of 2009, the City of Kalamazoo applied for grant funding under the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP)"…to hire and/or rehire career law enforcement officers in an effort to create and preserve jobs, and to increase their community policing capacity and crime-prevention efforts." -Chief Hadley Cops ImplementationOn July 27, 2009, the Associated Press announced that the City of Kalamazoo had been awarded approximately $2 million dollars to fund 10 officer positions.Kalamazoo Public Safety will enhance community policing activities with the COPS grant funding to make systemic changes in its organizational community policing philosophy and has already begun a strategic planning process to proactively address crime and community issues before they develop into chronic problems by focusing upon intervention, prevention, community partnerships and support, community initiatives and intra-governmental cooperation and organizational transformation.
Further Information Regarding COPS
2009 COPS Grant Award
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