[Vision2020] PR - City Receives COPS Grant

[Stephanie Kalasz]

City of Moscow
206 E Third Street
Moscow, ID 83843
Contact: Gary J. Riedner, City Supervisor
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PRESS RELEASE
City of Moscow Receives COPS Grant Award to Hire Additional Officers

October 21, 2011 (Moscow, Idaho) - The City of Moscow has been chosen through a competitive grant process to receive a Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant award of $420,734 to hire two additional police officers for a period of three years effective immediately.  In accepting this award, the City of Moscow guarantees continued employment for the duration of the grant and at least one year after the grant funding ends.  The City Council will be discussing the issue and the acceptance of the award at the Public Works Finance Committee meeting on October 10 at 3 p.m. in City Hall Council Chambers.

City of Moscow staff has worked very hard over the past three years in preparing applications for the COPS program.  The approach to the 2011 application was different than the past and was not solely scored and judged based on crime statistics and financial need, but focused on the Community Policing philosophies and practices of the Moscow Police Department (MPD) and the City of Moscow.  The application was written precisely to focus on those abilities that the MPD could provide in relationship to a Community Policing Plan and Strategy which gave the City an opportunity to document and exhibit the many collaborative efforts of the City of Moscow and MPD in working with the Moscow School District, University of Idaho, and many other local community organizations.  The development of the information and its presentation were the key to receiving this award.

The COPS program had an FY2011 appropriation of $243,439,595 to assist law enforcement agencies to hire and/or rehire of career law enforcement officers.  They received 2,712 requests for more than $2 billion to fund the hiring of 8,999 officers.  Scoring criteria for the award was weighted equally based on crime and fiscal need, as well as community policing efforts.  Due to the high demand and limited funding available, only 238 of the 2,712 COPS requests were ultimately funded, about 9% of the total number of agencies that submitted applications.  Twenty-one applications from Idaho police departments were submitted and only four were awarded, including Garden City, Montepelier, Pocatello, and Moscow.

The City of Moscow is grateful to the COPS organization for their continued dedication to the law enforcement agencies in our country and here in Idaho.

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Story Contact: David Duke, Chief of Police
Phone: 208.883.7059
Email: dduke at ci.moscow.id.us<mailto:dduke at ci.moscow.id.us>


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