The Ohio Law Enforcement Bulletproof Vest Program – administered by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office – continues in fiscal year 2022 to provide grants to local law enforcement agencies to purchase body armor vests. To date, the program has awarded grants exceeding $7 million to over 600 local law enforcement agencies in all 88 Ohio counties.
Funding for the program is provided by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation as part of its Safety Intervention Grant Program. With a local match of 25 percent, agencies can receive up to $40,000 from the program. The interactive maps below locate the agencies that have received funding.
Links to the forms necessary to apply for the grant and receive reimbursement are below. (NOTE: Only equipment purchased after receipt of an award is eligible for reimbursement from grant funds.)
Grant Application
Request for Payment Form
See which agencies have received grants – and how much – in these interactive maps:
This new training is available to OPOTC-certified peace officers and troopers who are assigned full- or part-time to an Ohio law enforcement tactical team. The two-day course, “School-Response Training for Members of Ohio Law Enforcement Tactical Teams,” is taught by the Ohio Tactical Officers Association (OTOA) and has been approved by the Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy for 16 credit hours of 2023 Continued Professional Training (CPT).
This flyer provides information about class dates and locations, the cost and registration.
To apply for reimbursement:
- Step 1: Contact OTOA to register tactical team members.
- Step 2: Complete the training.
- Step 3: Complete AGO grant request form for School-Response Training (see link below).
- Step 4: Pay OTOA for training.*
* The OTOA has agreed to defer payment for this course on a case-by-case basis.
Grant Application Form
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has expanded a program that helps address drug addictions, overdoses and deaths within Ohio communities. The Drug Abuse Response Team Grant Program reimburses some of the personnel and other costs for local law enforcement or government agency teams that deploy in response to overdoses and other effects of the opioid epidemic.
DART awards for FY21 totaled $1.22 million and went to 27 local agencies throughout Ohio that operate quick-response teams. The grants, administered by the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, range from $8,700 to $62,000 per agency. Many of the response teams also received previous grants from this program, which began in 2017. This interactive map shows the locations of the law enforcement and other agencies that have received past or current grants, and the amounts awarded.
See which agencies have gotten grants in this interactive map.
Applications for DART Grants and more information are available on OHLEG.
Attorney General Dave Yost and his team of school safety experts created the Ohio School Threat Assessment Training program to head off problems at schools before they explode into violence. That training — 10 chapters long and entailing about three hours’ worth of material — is available via OHLEG for law enforcement officers and via the Attorney General’s website for civilians. One chapter is viewable only by certified law enforcement officers.
OPOTC-certified officers who complete the training and conduct a School Vulnerability Assessment at an elementary, middle or high school are eligible to receive a grant.
Grant requests and more information are available on OHLEG.