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The New Jersey Police Chief Magazine | December 2017 Continued from previous page  A recruitment solution for civil service departments, scheduled to launch this December.  Virtual Career Webinars moderated by PoliceApp, which allow departments to connect directly with potential applicants to showcase open positions, provide specifics about their process, and engage interested applicants. Start Recruiting Smarter! One of our favorite quotes is from Capt. Burnham of the Lincoln, New Hampshire Police Department: “What used to take hours now only takes minutes, he said. “If a police department is not using PoliceApp.com, the person organizing the application process is working too hard!” Don’t work too hard, give us a call at [phone]. CONTACT INFORMATION Mike Quadrato Business Development Director PoliceApp.com [phone] [email protected] Attorney General Announces $98 Million To Hire Community Policing Officers U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced $98,495,397 in grant funding through the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to 179 law enforcement agencies across the nation, which allows those agencies to hire 802 additional full- time law enforcement officers. In announcing the funding, AG Sessions stated “Cities and states that cooperate with federal law enforcement make all of us safer by helping remove dangerous criminals from our communities. Today, the Justice Department announced that 80 percent of this year’s COPS Hiring Program grantees have agreed to cooperate with federal immigration authorities in their detention facilities. I applaud their commitment to the rule of law and to ending violent crime, including violent crime stemming from illegal immigration. I continue to encourage every jurisdiction in America to collaborate with federal law enforcement and help us make this country safer.” CHP provides grant funding directly to state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to support hiring additional law enforcement officers for three years to address specific crime problems through community policing strategies. In September, the Justice Department announced additional priority consideration criteria for FY2017 COPS Office grants. Applicants were notified that their application would receive additional points in the application scoring process by certifying their willingness to cooperate with federal immigration authorities within their detention facilities. Cooperation may include providing access to detention facilities for an interview of aliens in the jurisdiction’s custody and providing advance notice of an alien’s release from custody upon request. Eighty percent of the awarded agencies received additional points based on their certifications of willingness to cooperate with 16 Continued on next page