LOCAL, COUNTY, AND TRIBAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WITH AN ACTIVE TACTICAL TEAM AS PART OF THEIR LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS THAT RESPONDS TO CALLS FOR SERVICE OUTSIDE OF A CORRECTIONAL SETTING

Fiscal Year 2014 Tactical Team Grant Program seeks applications for up to $100,000 in federal State Homeland Security Program funding made available by the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES). The focus of this grant opportunity is to improve a tactical team’s capabilities and help to develop new response capabilities as it relates to high-risk incidents including active shooter events and other counter terrorism missions.

Grants will be awarded to local, county, and tribal law enforcement agencies with an active tactical team as part of their law enforcement operations that responds to calls for service outside of a correctional setting. The four primary objectives of this grant are to: 1) Advance tactical team capabilities through the attainment and sustainment of the minimum standards within this community; 2) Encourage and support training among law enforcement specialty teams to include bomb squads and explosive detection canine teams; 3) Promote regional partnerships in the development and build-out of tactical team capabilities, and 4) Participate in DHS’s Office for Bombing Prevention’s (DHS-OBP) SWAT Capability Analysis Program. Applications will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on August 4th, 2014 through the State’s Electronic Grants Management System (E-Grants).

For the Request for Applications (RFA) please visit the DHSES website at http://www.dhses.ny.gov/grants or DHSES’s Grant Hotline at (866) 837-9133.