Grants also went to Euclid, Middleburg Heights, Barberton, Brooklyn, the Village of Mogadore and the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Cleveland, Euclid, Middleburg Heights and the Summit County Sheriff’s Office are among 394 police agencies around the country who were awarded COPS Hiring Program grants on Thursday that will be used to hire 1,730 entry level police officers nationwide.
Since its creation in 1994, the COPS Office has advanced community policing nationwide and provided grants to over 13,000 state, local, territorial, and Tribal law enforcement agencies to fund the hiring and redeployment of approximately 138,000 officers. Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said the grants awarded this year went to “agencies small and large in big cities and small towns across the country. Gupta said half of the awards this year would go to rural departments.
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