FY25 COPS Office Anti-Heroin Task Force Program | O COPS 2025 172380

Opportunity Information: Apply for O COPS 2025 172380

The FY25 COPS Office Anti-Heroin Task Force (AHTF) Program is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), designed to strengthen statewide, collaborative law enforcement task forces focused on opioid-related drug trafficking. The program targets states with high per-capita rates of primary treatment admissions and supports coordinated, multi-agency efforts to locate and investigate illicit activities tied to the distribution of heroin, fentanyl, or carfentanil, as well as the unlawful distribution of prescription opioids. The COPS Office frames the approach within its broader mission of advancing community policing (also described in the program materials as "common sense policing"), emphasizing practical, partnership-based strategies that improve public safety.

Funding is intended to build capacity for statewide task forces by paying for additional personnel and resources that directly support investigations and coordination. Allowable uses highlighted in the opportunity include adding law enforcement, civilian, and task force personnel; providing training; and purchasing equipment that helps task forces operate more effectively. The program is explicitly aimed at expanding the time and staffing dedicated to these statewide efforts, increasing participation across a wider range of agencies, and strengthening analytical capabilities (for example, improving how task forces collect, analyze, and share information to better identify trafficking patterns and targets). In other words, the grant is structured to make task forces larger, more coordinated, and more intelligence-driven across jurisdictions.

At the same time, the notice draws clear boundaries around what the funds cannot support. AHTF funding is not available for treatment programs, and it is not intended to fund the prosecution of heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, or other opioid-related activities. The focus remains on investigation and enforcement operations conducted through statewide collaboration, rather than public health treatment services or courtroom prosecution functions.

Eligibility is limited primarily to state law enforcement agencies. For this program, "state" is defined broadly to include any U.S. state as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories and commonwealths, including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Beyond being a state-level applicant, the agency must have primary authority over state seizures of heroin and other opioids and must be able to demonstrate a multijurisdictional reach and an interdisciplinary task force structure, meaning the applicant needs to be positioned to lead or coordinate statewide efforts that span multiple localities and agencies.

The opportunity also includes a compliance requirement tied to federal law: state and local governmental entities must comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373. This provision generally requires that government entities or officials not prohibit or restrict the sharing, receiving, maintaining, or exchanging of information regarding an individual's citizenship or immigration status with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or other federal, state, or local government entities. Applicants are directed to consult the appendices in the FY25 AHTF Application Resource Guide for additional details on this requirement and related application guidance.

Key program details provided in the source include the funding opportunity number (O-COPS-2025-172380) and CFDA number 16.073. The application deadline listed is June 25, 2025. The maximum award amount (ceiling) is $4,000,000, and COPS Office anticipates making about 15 awards. Overall, the AHTF program is best understood as a targeted investment in statewide opioid trafficking task forces, concentrating on personnel, training, equipment, and analytical improvements that increase investigative reach and coordination across jurisdictions.

• The Community Oriented Policing Services in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY25 COPS Office Anti-Heroin Task Force Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.073.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2025-05-13.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-06-25. (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 $4,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 15 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, Others.

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