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COPS Hiring Recovery Program ((HRP) Please note that unless your agency is a Federally Recognized Tribe contracting with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for law enforcement services, contractual arrangements for law enforcement services are not fundable under CHRP. An applicant may not reduce its budget for sworn officers just to take advantage of the CHRP grant. Any budget cut must be unrelated to the receipt of CHRP grant funds to avoid a violation of the COPS statute nonsupplanting requirement. The nonsupplanting requirement means that COPS grant funds must be used to supplement (increase) state, local or Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) funds that would have been dedicated toward the grant purpose if federal funding had not been awarded. CHRP grant funds must not be used to replace local funds that agencies otherwise would have devoted to sworn officer hiring. The hiring or rehiring of officers under CHRP must be in addition to, and not in lieu of, officers who otherwise would have been hired or rehired with local funds. For additional information on the COPS nonsupplanting requirement as it applies to CHRP, please refer to the nonsupplanting FAQs at http://www.cops.usdQi.aov/Default.asp?ltem=2119. Furthermore, all grant recipients must retain any CHRP-funded officer positions awarded for at least 12 months after the 36 months of federal funding has ended for each position. Applicants are required to affirm in their CHRP grant application that their agency plans to retain any additional officer positions awarded following the expiration of the grant, and identify their planned source(s) of retention funding. Please note that if your agency receives a CHRP grant, your agency must comply with all of the data tracking, collection and reporting requirements under the Recovery Act and CHRP on a timely basis. Grant recipients shall promptly refer to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) any credible evidence that a person has submitted a false claim under the False Claim Act or has committed a criminal or civil violation of laws pertaining to fraud, conflict of interest, bribery, gratuity or similar misconduct involving CHRP funds. The OIG may be contacted at QIG.hotlinePusdoi.aov. www.usdoj,gov/oig/F01A/hotline.htm and 800.869.4499. Misuse of CHRP funds and/or failure to comply with all COPS grant requirements may result in suspension or termination of grant funds, the repayment of grant funds and/or other remedies available by law. Please be advised that a hold may be placed on this application if it is deemed that the applicant agency is not in good standing on other U.S. Department of Justice grants, has other grant compliance issues that would make the applicant agency ineligible to receive COPS funding, and/or is not cooperating with an ongoing compliance investigation regarding a current COPS grant award. A hold may also be placed on this application if it is deemed that the applicant agency is not in compliance with federal civil rights laws and/or is not cooperating with an ongoing federal civil rights investigation. 3 ~ l=,