Contribution Program to Combat Serious and Organized Crime
Serious and organized crime pose significant threats to the health and safety of Canadians.
Public Safety Canada's Contribution Program to Combat Serious and Organized Crime (CPCSOC) supports initiatives, research, partnership building, specialized police services, projects and programs to increase knowledge, raise awareness and/or help advance efforts to combat serious and organized crime, through funding allocations to eligible recipients.
Current funding opportunities
Auto theft
Public Safety Canada will proceed with a targeted solicitation process to allocate funding to support Canadian law enforcement agencies' work to combat auto theft and will communicate directly with potential applicants.
About the program
Program overview
This program includes, but is not limited to, the following Public Safety Canada initiatives:
- Drug-Impaired Driving
- National Strategy for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation on the Internet
- Implementing Canada's Tobacco Strategy
- National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking
- Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence
- National Action Plan on Combatting Auto Theft
Who is eligible
- Domestic not-for-profit organizations that support public safety
- International organizations that support public safety, including non-governmental organizations and organizations
- Canadian university and educational institutions
- Provincial, territorial, regional, municipal, local and Indigenous governments
- Provincial or local police services, including an Indigenous police service, and/or its governing authority (also known as a board, a police board, a designed board of a police commission)
- An Indigenous community or band within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Indian Act, R.S.C. 1985, c.I-5, or a First Nation, Métis or Inuit community recognized as a legal entity that has entered into a self-government agreement, which has been approved and has force of law under an act of Parliament or a legislature
- A First Nation and/or Inuit and/or Metis police service, if it is a legal person
- An Indigenous police governing authority (also known as a board, a police board, a designated board, or a police commission), if it is a legal person
Program objectives
The objectives of the CPCSOC are to advance efforts to combat serious and organized crime by:
- supporting projects including, but not limited to, specialized police services that focus on enhancing efforts to combat serious and organized crime
- supporting projects, initiatives and/or research projects to increase understanding of the (evolving) nature of serious and organized crime, including its structures, activities and impact on communities; and increasing awareness and understanding of related issues
- creating or reinforcing partnerships and collaboration among recipients
- facilitating cooperation and collaboration among various levels of government and stakeholders
- Informing the development/implementation of policies, procedures and legislation
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