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Award Document Supplement 2014 COPS Hiring Program (CHP) By signing the Award Document to accept this COPS Hiring Program (CHP) grant, the grantee agrees to abide by the following Special Award Conditions and/or High Risk Conditions: Special Award Conditions Advancing Department of Justice Priority Crime Problem Awards Your agency has been selected for a COPS Hiring Program (CHP) grant to address a particular Department of Justice priority crime problem, based specifically on your CHP grant application's community policing plan to improve your agency's public safety response to the critical issues of school based policing through School Resource Officers (SRO), Trust Problems, Homeland Security, Gun Violence or Homicide Reduction. Please be advised that, in accepting this grant, your agency is agreeing to this Special Condition to its CHP grant award that requires your agency's COPS - funded officers (or an equivalent number of locally - funded officers) to initiate or enhance your agency's community policing plan to address one of the priority crime problem identified above. By signing the 2014 CHP grant award, your agency understands and agrees to the following: • Your agency will implement the one specific community policing plan identified in your CHP grant application; • Your agency will address its specific priority crime problem throughout the entire CHP grant period; • Your agency will implement any organizational changes identified in its CHP grant application in Section 6B, Questions 13 and 14; • Your agency will cooperate with any grant monitoring by the COPS Office to ensure that it is initiating or enhancing its community policing efforts to address its priority crime problem, which may include your agency having to respond to additional or modified reporting requirements. Memorandum of Understanding Requirement (School Resource Officers Problem Area Only) Grantees using CHP funding to hire and/or deploy School Resource Officers into schools must submit a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the law enforcement agency and the school partner(s) to the COPS Office before obligating or drawing down funds under this award.