Other community policing initiatives include Domestic Violence, Methamphetamine Initiatives, School Based Partnerships, and the Tribal Resource Grant Program. REGULATIONS, GUIDELINES, AND LITERATURE: Application Kits and current edition of M7100.1, which are available from Headquarters. INFORMATION CONTACTS: Headquarters Office: Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 1100 Vermont Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20530. Telephone: U.S. Department of Justice Response Center: 1-800- 421-6770, or (202) 307-1480. Direct applications to: COPS Office, 1100 Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20530. Web Site Address: http://usdoj.gov. 330 EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: Previously funded projects include the hiring or rehiring of additional officers to engage in community policing under the COPS Phase I, COPS FAST, COPS AHEAD, COPS in Schools and the Universal Hiring programs. Grants per agency supported the addition of 1 to 3,500 new officers. Under the COPS MORE programs, 4,584 grants were made for the acquisition of communications and computer equipment, the hiring of civilian support resources, and, in the case of MORE '95 alone, for the payment of overtime, to redeploy, in a cost-effective manner, sworn officers to community policing activities. Other funded projects included 117 agencies under the Advancing Community Policing grant program, 15 jurisdictions under an anti- gang initiative, 10 innovative strategies to combat firearms violence,
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