COPS-CAMP-APPLICATION-2019 | COPS CAMP APPLICATION 2019

Opportunity Information: Apply for COPS CAMP APPLICATION 2019

The COPS-CAMP-APPLICATION-2019 opportunity is a discretionary grant competition run by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), focused specifically on strengthening state-level responses to methamphetamine. It is aimed at state law enforcement agencies that are legally authorized, either directly by statute or through designation by a state agency, to conduct or oversee anti-methamphetamine investigative activities. Because the funding pool is limited, the solicitation is framed as highly competitive, with a clear emphasis on applicants that can show broad impact across jurisdictions and strong coordination among different disciplines involved in drug enforcement and community safety.

At its core, the program is designed to expand and sharpen enforcement and investigative capacity related to illicit methamphetamine. That includes locating and investigating precursor chemical diversion, clandestine laboratories, and trafficking networks. A major priority is the creation of new, or the enhancement of existing, multijurisdictional and interdisciplinary task forces that can produce concrete enforcement outcomes, such as seizures of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, laboratories, and laboratory dump sites. The solicitation signals that proposals will be stronger when they demonstrate an operational structure capable of working across agency boundaries and geographic lines, rather than focusing on isolated, single-jurisdiction efforts.

The grant also pushes applicants to integrate community policing into their anti-methamphetamine strategies. In practice, that means using problem-solving approaches, building partnerships, and making organizational changes that help reduce meth manufacturing, distribution, and use over time, not just increasing arrests or seizures in the short term. Another central expectation is collaboration beyond traditional law enforcement channels. Applicants are encouraged to show how they will work with federal, state, local, and/or tribal partners, including those involved in prevention, intervention and treatment services, and efforts to identify and protect drug-endangered children, alongside enforcement operations. The message is that effective meth suppression is treated as both a public safety and community health problem requiring coordinated action.

Applications are expected to be data-driven. The solicitation explicitly notes that strong proposals should include multi-year, state-level methamphetamine seizure data to justify the need, identify trends, and support the proposed approach. This indicates that reviewers are likely looking for evidence of sustained or emerging meth activity, a clear explanation of how the proposed task force or investigative work will address it, and measurable indicators that can be tracked over time.

Key administrative details include an award ceiling of up to $2,000,000, a CFDA number of 16.710, and an original closing date of August 2, 2019 (with the opportunity originally created March 29, 2019). Although it is an open competition, the COPS Office reserves the right to limit awards to one per state at the time awards are announced, which raises the stakes for statewide coordination and strengthens the incentive for applicants to demonstrate that they can lead or unify efforts across regions. Eligibility is limited to state law enforcement agencies with appropriate authority, and additional consideration is given to agencies already participating in anti-methamphetamine task forces that have multijurisdictional reach and interdisciplinary team structures.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "COPS-CAMP-APPLICATION-2019" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.710.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2019-03-29.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-08-02. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2,000,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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