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Award Document Supplement <br />2014 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) <br />By signing the Award Document to accept this COPS Hiring Program (CHP) grant, the grantee agrees to <br />abide by the following Special Award Conditions and/or High Risk Conditions: <br />Special Award Conditions <br />Advancing Department of Justice Priority Crime Problem Awards <br />Your agency has been selected for a COPS Hiring Program (CHP) grant to address a particular <br />Department of Justice priority crime problem, based specifically on your CHP grant <br />application's community policing plan to improve your agency's public safety response to the <br />critical issues of school based policing through School Resource Officers (SRO), Trust <br />Problems, Homeland Security, Gun Violence or Homicide Reduction. <br />Please be advised that, in accepting this grant, your agency is agreeing to this Special Condition <br />to its CHP grant award that requires your agency's COPS- funded officers (or an equivalent <br />number of locally - funded officers) to initiate or enhance your agency's community policing plan <br />to address one of the priority crime problem identified above. By signing the 2014 CHP grant <br />award, your agency understands and agrees to the following: <br />• Your agency will implement the one specific community policing plan identified in your <br />CHP grant application; <br />• Your agency will address its specific priority crime problem throughout the entire CHP <br />grant period; <br />• Your agency will implement any organizational changes identified in its CHP grant <br />application in Section 6B, Questions 13 and 14; <br />• Your agency will cooperate with any grant monitoring by the COPS Office to ensure that <br />it is initiating or enhancing its community policing efforts to address its priority crime <br />problem, which may include your agency having to respond to additional or modified <br />reporting requirements. <br />Memorandum of Understanding Requirement <br />(School Resource Officers Problem Area Only <br />Grantees using CHP funding to hire and/or deploy School Resource Officers into schools must <br />submit a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the law enforcement agency <br />and the school partner(s) to the COPS Office before obligating or drawing down funds under this <br />award. <br />55A -13 <br />