COPS-CAMP-APPLICATION-2020 | COPS CAMP APPLICATION 2020

Opportunity Information: Apply for COPS CAMP APPLICATION 2020

The COPS-CAMP-APPLICATION-2020 opportunity is a discretionary grant competition run by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) to strengthen state-level efforts against illicit methamphetamine activity. It is aimed specifically at state law enforcement agencies that are legally authorized, either directly by law or through a state agency mandate, to conduct or oversee anti-methamphetamine investigative work. Because the funding is limited, the program is described as highly competitive, and applications are expected to be strongest when they clearly show statewide or multijurisdictional impact rather than isolated, single-area activity.

The program's core purpose is to expand and improve investigations and enforcement targeting methamphetamine production and trafficking, including precursor chemical diversion, clandestine laboratories, and distribution networks. A major emphasis is on building or enhancing multijurisdictional and interdisciplinary task forces, meaning coordinated teams that cross city, county, and sometimes regional boundaries and include partners from different disciplines or agencies. The intended outcomes include increased seizures of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, meth labs, and lab dump sites, with task forces serving as the operational backbone to coordinate intelligence, investigations, and enforcement across multiple jurisdictions.

Beyond enforcement, the solicitation also stresses community policing as a required strategy, not an optional add-on. Applicants are encouraged to show how they will use community policing approaches such as problem solving, partnerships, and organizational change to reduce meth manufacture, distribution, and use. In practical terms, this means proposals should connect investigative and task force work to broader community safety strategies, including prevention and intervention, and should demonstrate how the program will coordinate with relevant partners rather than operating in a silo.

Collaboration is a central theme throughout the solicitation. Strong proposals are expected to show active coordination with federal, state, local, and/or tribal partners. The collaboration scope is not limited to enforcement; it also includes prevention efforts, intervention and treatment connections, and work related to drug-endangered children (for example, identification protocols and coordination with child welfare or related services). The competitive preference leans toward applicants already participating in anti-meth task forces or those proposing credible plans to create or substantially strengthen such task forces with broad reach and interdisciplinary staffing.

A key application strength factor is the use of evidence to justify need and demonstrate likely impact. The solicitation specifically notes that strong applications should include multi-year, state-level methamphetamine seizure data to support the proposal. That data is meant to show trends, hotspots, and operational need, and to provide a baseline for measuring outcomes tied to seizures, lab interdiction, and related enforcement metrics.

In terms of award structure, the funding instrument is a grant under CFDA 16.710, categorized under Law, Justice, and Legal Services. The listed award ceiling is $2,000,000. The COPS Office also states it reserves the right to limit awards to one per state at the time awards are announced, which raises the stakes for statewide coordination and suggests that intra-state competition could be a factor. The opportunity closed on April 22, 2020, and it was created on February 4, 2020.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "COPS-CAMP-APPLICATION-2020" 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 2020-02-04.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2020-04-22. (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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