The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
Hiring Program Award has awarded Orange County a fiscal year 2017 COPS Hiring Program Award in the amount of $3,125,000, with a required cash match of $3,409,749 from the Orange County Sheriffs Office. The grant period is from November 1, 2017 through October 31, 2020.
This funding will provide the means for the Orange County Sheriffs Office to hire 25 new full-time, sworn, career law enforcement officers over the three-year grant period.
The 25 officers will be assigned to the Problem Oriented Policing Squad ("a proactive enforcement plan promoting change in the
community’s view of police response"), SWAT, and Homeland Security.
This grant can be used for the following: (1) hire new officers, (2) rehire officers who have been laid off, or (3) are scheduled to be laid offon a specific future date, as a result of local budget reductions.
The maximum reimbursement for each officer's salary and fringe benefits is $125,000. The required cash matching of $3,409,749 will fund the remaining costs of salaries and fringe benefits.
The maximum reimbursement for each officer's salary and fringe benefits is $125,000. The required cash matching of $3,409,749 will fund the remaining costs of salaries and fringe benefits.
After the three-year grant period, the Orange County Sheriffs Office must sustain the 25 deputies for a one-year period.
CHP awards provide up to 75 percent of the approved entry-level salaries and fringe benefits of full-time officers for a 36-month award period, with a minimum 25 percent local cash match requirement.
The FBI is retiring the current Summary Reporting System (SRS) and will transition to an all-National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data collection system within the next 5 years. The transition to NIBRS will provide a more complete and accurate picture o f crime at the national, state, and local level. Beginning in 2021, the FBI will no longer collect summary crime data and will only accept data in the NIBRS format. Consequently, COPS Office awards will be based on submitted NIBRS data. Transitioning all law enforcement agencies to NIBRS is the first step in gathering more comprehensive crime data. The COPS Office encourages its award recipients to submit NIBRS data to the FBI Criminal Justice Infonnation Services Division in a timely manner, thereby ensuring sufficient and complete crime and arrest data is available for consideration.
The FBI is retiring the current Summary Reporting System (SRS) and will transition to an all-National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data collection system within the next 5 years. The transition to NIBRS will provide a more complete and accurate picture o f crime at the national, state, and local level. Beginning in 2021, the FBI will no longer collect summary crime data and will only accept data in the NIBRS format. Consequently, COPS Office awards will be based on submitted NIBRS data. Transitioning all law enforcement agencies to NIBRS is the first step in gathering more comprehensive crime data. The COPS Office encourages its award recipients to submit NIBRS data to the FBI Criminal Justice Infonnation Services Division in a timely manner, thereby ensuring sufficient and complete crime and arrest data is available for consideration.