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2021 COPS Hiring Program 2 a local match waiver is approved. Any additional costs for higher than entry-level salaries and fringe benefits will be the responsibility of the recipient agency. Funding under this program will support three years of officer or deputy salaries within a five-year period of perfor- mance to accommodate the training and recruitment time frame. Agencies must retain each CHP -funded position for 12 months following the three-year funding for that posi- tion. The additional officer positions should be added to your agency's law enforcement budget with state or local funds over and above the number of locally funded offi- cer positions that would have existed in the absence of the award. Absorbing CHP -funded positions through attrition (rather than adding the extra positions to your budget with additional funding) does not meet the retention requirement. Funding under this program may be used to do the follow- ing: (1) hire new officers (including filling existing officer vacancies that are no longer funded in an agency's budget); (2) rehire officers already laid off (at the time of application) as a result of state, local, or Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) budget reductions unrelated to the receipt of award fund- ing; or (3) rehire officers scheduled to be laid off (at the time of application) on a specific future date as a result of state, local, or BIA budget reductions unrelated to the receipt of award funding. CHP applicants may request funding in one or more of these three hiring categories. In FY 2021, agencies may request the number of officer positions necessary to support their proposed community policing strategy. Please keep in mind that there is a mini- mum 25 percent local cash match and a 12 -month retention period for each officer position funded. The COPS Office will fund as many positions as possible for successful appli- cants; however, the number of officer positions requested by an agency may be reduced based on the availability of fund- ing and other programmatic considerations. The COPS Office may grant a waiver of some or all of an applicant's local match requirement. During the application review process, waiver requests will be evaluated based on a demonstration of severe fiscal distress. The COPS Office statutory nonsupplanting requirement mandates that CHP funds must be used to supplement (increase) state, local, or BIA funds that would have been dedicated toward sworn officer positions if federal funding had not been awarded. CHP award fiends must not be used to supplant (replace) local funds that agencies otherwise would have devoted to sworn officer hiring. The hiring or rehiring of officers under CHP must be in addition to, and not in lieu of, officers who otherwise would have been hired or rehired with state, local, or BIA finds. CHP awards provide funding for three years (36 months) of entry-level salary for each position awarded. The award period of performance is five years (60 months) to accom- modate the hiring process. Retained CHP -funded positions should be added to the recipient's law enforcement budget with state or local funds to increase the number of locally funded sworn officer posi- tions that would have existed in the absence of the award. Applicants are required to affirm in their CHP award appli- cation that their agency plans to retain any additional officer positions funded following the expiration of the award and identify their planned sources of retention funding. Highlights of FY 2021 CHP Additional consideration in the application review process will be given to applicants that propose a community-based approach to the following problem/focus areas: Building Legitimacy and Trust, Violent Crime (particularly gun violence), Police -Based Response to Persons in Crisis, and Combating Hate and Domestic Extremism. If awarded CHP funding, recipients that chose one of those four spe- cific community policing problem areas will not be allowed to change the problem area post -award. Under FY 2021 CHP, new -hire officer positions are not required to be military veterans. However, because the COPS Office supports the priority to hire military veter- ans whenever possible, applicants who commit to hiring or rehiring at least one military veteran under CHP will receive additional consideration for FY 2021 CHP funding. These military veterans may be in any of the three hiring categories described under "Funding Provisions," not just new hires. Additional consideration will be provided to agencies that commit to hiring officers from the communities in which they will serve and to agencies that commit to hiring officers willing to relocate to areas characterized by frag- mented relations between police and community residents or areas of high crime. Additional consideration may also be provided to applicants who experienced an unanticipated catastrophic event. All agencies that report that they have May 2021