COPS Veteran Hiring Initiative

Sat, May 12, 2012 10:45:15 PM

FW: COPS Veteran Hiring Initiative

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Greetings Veterans,

 

Here's some info...on....CA Highway Patrol (CHP) - hiring.

 

 

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Subject: FW: COPS Veteran Hiring Initiative
Importance: High

Here is another great opportunity with the CA Highway Patrol to hire veterans that you may wish to share with your veteran representatives……

Nancy J. Sanders
California State Director
Veterans' Employment and Training Service

The COPS Office was very appreciative of the opportunity to meet with Deputy Under Secretary Coy’s office and provide a briefing on the 2012 COPS Hiring Program (CHP).  I wanted a moment to follow up and address a few points and discuss the next steps of the 2012 CHP. 

The 2012 COPS Hiring Program is a competitive grant that will make available $111 million directly to law enforcement agencies to hire, retain, and/or rehire career law enforcement officers in an effort to create and preserve jobs and increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.  Any applicant requesting new hire positions will be required to hire a new officer who is a post-9/11 military veteran.  We did not apply the post-9/11 military veteran requirement towards applicant request to retain or rehire police officers who are expected to or have been laid off. 

Quick Facts:

·         The solicitation opened on March 1^st and closed on March 22^nd. 

·         We received 1411 applications with the bulk of the applicant requests focused on military veterans. 

·         We expect to award about 200 applicants to fund approximately 680-700 officers through the 2012 solicitation. 

·         Of the 680-700 officers, approximately 500 positions will support the hire of post-9/11 military veterans. 

·         We are preparing for a mid-June award announcement.  

3/27/2012
THE FY 2012 COPS HIRING PROGRAM – BY THE NUMBERS*
The FY 2012 appropriations act provided $111,354,750 for the COPS Hiring Program (CHP) for direct grant funding. Only agencies that applied in FY 2011 and did not receive funding or were partially funded were eligible to apply in FY 2012. There were 2,514 eligible applicants in FY 2012. The COPS Office anticipates funding approximately 500 positions with police officers who are military veterans.
The funds will be used to:  Hire new officers who are post 9/11 military veterans, including filling existing officer vacancies that are no longer funded in agencies’ budgets.  Rehire officers (from any jurisdiction) laid off as a result of state, local, or tribal budget cuts.  Rehire officers who are (at the time of the application) currently scheduled to be laid off on a future date as a result of state, local, or tribal budget cuts.
SOME QUICK FACTS ABOUT FY 2012 COPS HIRING PROGRAM
GRANT APPLICATIONS
Agencies
Number of law enforcement agencies with populations above 150,000 98 Number of law enforcement agencies with populations below 150,000 1,313 Law enforcement agencies applying for a grant based on 2,514 eligible applicants 1,411 (56%) Number of agencies that requested a waiver of the local match 262 (18%)
Officers
New law enforcement officer positions requested (military veterans) 3,403 Number of rehired law enforcement officer positions (laid off from any jurisdiction) 192 Number of rehired law enforcement officer positions (scheduled layoffs from requesting jurisdiction) 184 Total number of law enforcement officers requested 3,779
*The COPS Office is in the process of reviewing applications so the quick facts may change slightly after data quality review