NAPO joined fellow members of the Coalition to Close the De Minimis Loophole in a letter to President Trump thanking him for taking decisive action to close the de minimis tariff loophole.

NAPO supports the Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act, which would give law enforcement another tool to stop the production of counterfeit and fentanyl-laced pills by requiring pill presses, punches, and dies to be engraved with serial numbers, making it easier to act against cartels.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is accepting grant applications for funding for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program (BWCPIP). The FY 2025 BWCPIP supports law enforcement and correctional agencies in establishing or expanding body-worn camera (BWC) programs. The Grants.gov application deadline is Oct. 27 and JustGrants application deadline is Nov. 3, 2025.

Representatives Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and Madeleine Dean (D-PA) reintroduced NAPO priority legislation, the Supporting and Treating Officers in Crisis (STOIC) Act (H.R. 5282), which would reauthorize the STOIC Act program. This program provides essential grant funding for law enforcement support services, such as the establishment of suicide-prevention programs and mental health services and supports for officers and their families. According to Blue H.E.L.P., 156 current or active-duty officers died by suicide in 2024 and there were 171 officer suicides in 2023. So far this year, 86 officers have taken their own lives.

NAPO pledged support for the reintroduced Enhancing COPS Hiring Grants for Local Law Enforcement Act. This bipartisan bill would allow for COPS Hiring Program (CHP) grant funds to be used for recruitment and retention bonuses. This legislation provides a vital update to CHP with police departments nationwide understaffed, under-resourced and struggling to hire and retain good, qualified officers.

Since the Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to merge the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) into the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), NAPO is meeting with members of the House Appropriations Committee about including language in the final Fiscal Year 2026 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill to prohibit the integration of the COPS Office into OJP. While we understand and support the DOJ’s desire to streamline its many grantmaking authorities for efficiency, NAPO is concerned if the COPS Office is consolidated with the other DOJ grantmaking entities, we will lose a significant resource dedicated to state and local law enforcement.

NAPO supports President Trump’s nomination of Sara Carter to be the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). The Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing on her nomination Sept. 17. As the Special Advisor for the President in ONDCP, Ms. Carter has an extensive background in investigative reporting on drug cartels and the growing opioid and fentanyl crisis to provide strategic guidance on issues ranging from reducing the counternarcotics supply to addressing domestic demand for illegal drugs.

NAPO Executive Director Bill Johnson was interviewed for a Sept. 24, 2025 article in The Washington Examiner entitled, “Newsom’s California police cannot arrest masked ICE officers: Former cops”.

See which U.S. Representatives and Senators support NAPO’s priority legislation on our new interactive Sponsor/Cosponsor map on our website which accompanies the latest "Legislative Positions” document.

For more details, click on the link below for the Sept. 26, 2025 Washington Report.