Fiscal Year 2021 Tactical Team Grant Program seeks applications for up to $75,000 from federal State Homeland Security Program funding made available by the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES). The primary focus of this grant opportunity is to improve a tactical team’s response capabilities through the attainment and sustainment of the SWAT Team Standards that were developed and approved by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) through the Municipal Police Training Council (MPTC).

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 respond to calls for service outside of a correctional setting AND have been certified by DCJS or have a pending application for certification with DCJS. 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 mutual tactical team capabilities, and 4) Participate in DHS’s Office for Bombing Prevention’s (DHS-OBP) SWAT Capability Analysis Program.

Applications will be accepted until November 1, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. through the DHSES electronic grants management system (E-Grants).

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