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Fact Sheet
Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE) 
Using Technology To Keep America's Communities Safe

LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES CONSISTENTLY CITE 
TECHNOLOGY AS ONE OF THEIR
MOST CRITICAL NEEDS.

COPS HAS RESPONDED WITH 
MORE THAN $1.3 BILLION IN
GRANTS TO ADDRESS THIS NEED.

Law enforcement agencies consistently 
cite technology as one of their most 
critical needs. In this modern era of 
policing, using technology to establish 
more efficient practices gives officers and 
deputies more time to patrol the 
communities they serve. Many law 
enforcement agencies, however, do not 
have the financial resources they need to 
purchase new technologies. The Office of 
Community Oriented Policing Services 
(COPS) recognized the technological
challenges confronting America’s law 
enforcement community, and responded 
with the Making Officer Redeployment 
Effective (MORE) program. 

Returning Police to Communities 

The MORE program increased the time 
available to law enforcement professionals 
for community policing activities by 
funding technology that enabled a 
department to operate more efficiently. 
COPS MORE grants helped more than 
4,500 law enforcement agencies acquire and 
implement technology to support efficient 
community policing operations. These 
grants totaled more than $1.3 billion, and 
funded crime fighting technologies that 
helped redeploy the equivalent of more 
than 42,000 full-time law enforcement 
professionals into community policing 
activities. MORE program grants covered 
up to 75 percent of the total cost of certain 
technologies over a one-year period. 
Agencies that received grants were required 
to provide a minimum funding match of 25 
percent. 

Using Technology to Advance 
Community Policing 

In addition to redeploying officers and 
deputies into community policing 
activities, the MORE program 
significantly increased the ability of 
officers across the country to solve 
community problems. For example, in-car 
computers procured by some grantees 
enabled officers to analyze and research 
local crime and disorder problems while 
on patrol, improving their ability to 
quickly and effectively address 
community issues. The MORE program 
provided funding for the following 
categories of technology: 

• Mobile Computing 
• Personal Computers 
• Computer-Aided Dispatch 
• Records Management Systems 
• Crime Analysis Hardware/Software 
• Automated Booking 
• Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems
• Video Arraignment. 



Making a Difference Through MORE Contact COPS 
The MORE program not only allowed  
officers to work more efficiently, but also  
more effectively. MORE-funded  
technology has enabled many agencies to 
become more proactive in their  
community policing efforts. MORE grants 
provided the technology that supports 
such tasks as analyzing real-time crime 
data, analyzing incident reports to 
anticipate trends in crime, and mapping 
crime “hot spots.” Technology is helping 
to expand the way the law enforcement 
community thinks about and practices 
community policing. 

For more information on the MORE
program, please call the COPS Office
Response Center at 800.421.6770,
or visit COPS Online at
www.cops.usdoj.gov.

Updated September 13, 2006 
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