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COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) Overview The COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP) is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) of 2009, P.L.111-5, and provides funding directly to law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire career law enforcement officers in an effort to create and preservejobs, and to increase their community policing capacity and crime- prevention efforts. CHRP grants cover 100 percent of the approved entry-level salary and fringe benefits of each newly-hired and/or rehired, full-time sworn career law enforcement officer over three years (36 months). There is no local match or cap on the amount of funding that can be requested, but CHRP grant funding will be based on your agency's current entry-level salary and fringe benefits for full-time sworn officers. Any additional costs for higher than entry-level salaries and fringe benefits will be the responsibility of the grantee agency. The COPS Office reserves the right to reduce any request based on funding availability and/or other factors as determined by the COPS Office. Funding under this program may be used to: • Hire new officers, which includes filling existing officer vacancies that are no longer funded in your agency's budget. These positions must be in addition to your current budgeted (funded) level of sworn officer positions, and the officers must be hired on or after the official grant award start date as it is listed on your agency's award document. • Rehire officers who have already been laid off (at the time of the application) as a result of state, local, or tribal budget cuts. The rehired officers must be rehired on or after the official grant award start date as it appears on your agency's award document. Documentation must be maintained showing the date(s) that the positions were laid off and rehired. • Rehire officers who are (at the time of the application) currentlyscheduled to be laid off on a future date as a result of state, local, or tribal budget cuts. Grantees will be required to continue funding the positions with local funding until the date(s) of the scheduled lay-offs. The dates of the scheduled lay-offs and the number of positions affected must be identified in the CHRP application. In addition, documentation must be maintained detailing the dates and reason(s) for the lay-offs. Furthermore, agencies awarded will be required to maintain documentation that demonstrates that the scheduled lay-offs are occurring for local economic reasons unrelated to the availability of CHRP grant funds; such documentation may include local council meeting minutes, memoranda, notices, or orders discussing the lay-offs, budget documents ordering jurisdiction-wide budget cuts, and/or notices provided to the individual officers regarding the lay-offs. An applicant may request funding in one or more of the above-referenced hiring categories under CHRP. If your agency receives a CHRP grant and aher receiving the grani, your agency needs to change one or more of the funded hiring categories it received funding under, your agency must request a post-award grant modification and must receive prior approval before spending CHRP funding. To obtain information on modifying a CHRP grant award, please contact the COPS Office Response Center at 800.421.6770. ~V1 ~