55B - AA - RESO - COPS HIRING GRANT

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Award Document Supplement 2016 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) By signing the Award Document to accept this COPS Hiring Program (CHP) award, the recipient agrees to abide by the following Special Award Conditions and /or High Risk Conditions: Special Award Conditions Advancing Department of Justice Priority Crime Problem Awards Your agency has been selected for a COPS Hiring Program (CHP) award to address a particular Department of Justice priority crime problem/focus area, based specifically on your CHP award application's community policing plan to improve your agency's public safety response to the critical issues of School Based Policing through School Resource Officers (SRO), Gun Violence, Homeland Security, Building Trust or Homicide Redaction. Please be advised that, in accepting this award, your agency is agreeing to this Special Condition to its CHP award that requires your agency's COPS - funded officers (or an equivalent number of locally - funded officers) to initiate or enhance your agency's community policing plan to address one of the priority crime problems identified above. By signing the 2016 CHP award, your agency understands and agrees to the following: • Your agency will implement the one specific community policing plan identified in your CHP award application; • Your agency will address its specific priority crime problem throughout the entire CHP award period; • Your agency will implement any organizational changes identified in its CHP award application in Section 6B, Questions 12 and 13; • Your agency will cooperate with any award monitoring by the COPS Office to ensure that it is initiating or enhancing its community policing efforts to address its priority crime problem, which may include your agency having to respond to additional or modified reporting requirements. Memorandum of Understanding Requirement (School -based Policing through School Resource Officers Focus Area Only) By signing the 2016 CHP award, recipients using CHP funding to hire and /or deploy School Resource Officers into schools understand and agree to the following: • Your agency must submit a signed Memorandum of Understancling (MOU) between the law enforcement agency and the school partner(s) to the COPS Office before obligating or drawing down finds under this award. The MOU must be submitted to the COPS Office within 90 days of the date shown on the award congratulatory letter. • Your agency's MOU must contain the following information; 55B -11