INL – Increasing Police Recruitment to Counter FTOs and TCOs in Colombia
This cooperative agreement funds an implementer to provide scholarship and financial-management support for recruiting and training approximately 1,000 Colombian police students per year in priority areas tied to countering narcotrafficking and criminal organizations.
RESTRICTED TO: NONPROFITS
⚑ Foreign-based NGOs and foreign-based educational institutions are eligible. · Program is scholarship support plus financial administration, not research. · Applicant is an implementer; funds are for recipient support payments and audit-controlled disbursement systems. · Cooperative agreement instrument.
Unit fits — one characterization, each unit's own rules
| IPPRA | 40 partial | peripheral portfolio topic: national_security_defense; signature methods: community engaged; social/behavioral work is minor; funds training education, not research (capped); capped at 40 (non-research funding) |
| Physical Sciences & Engineering (demo) | 25 weak | technical depth: minor; funds training education (capped) |
| Tom Love Innovation Hub | 5 none | no commercialization signal |
Description
The program will increase the recruitment of qualified candidates from INL Bogota’s priority geographic areas —regions that are critical to U.S. interests due to their high levels of coca production, narcotrafficking, and child recruitment by criminal organizations.
By building a more capable and professional police force in these strategically important areas, this scholarship program will help disrupt criminal networks at their source, reducing the flow of illicit drugs, weapons, and human trafficking that threaten the United States. The program will support the recruitment and training of approximately 1,000 CNP students per year: 600 for non-commissioned officer (NCO) roles and 400 for commissioned officer (CO) roles. A stronger Colombian police presence in these regions will advance U.S. national security priorities, safeguard American lives, and promote stability in the Western Hemisphere.
The program will provide scholarship support to qualified candidates through a structured financial management system. The implementor will ensure timely monthly electronic funds transfer payments to the bank accounts of scholarship recipients or service providers for required items. Scholarship recipients will receive electronic funds transfers only for approved support expenses. To strengthen internal controls, the implementer will minimize direct cash handling and ensure all disbursement are documented and subject to audit.
Eligibility
U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations (NGOs); U.S.-based educational institutions subject to section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code or section 26 US 115 of the U.S. tax code; Foreign-based non-profits/non-governmental organizations (NGOs); Foreign-based educational institutions
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Legacy IPPRA LLM assessment (v2.0, for comparison)
15/100 · gpt-5.4-mini · 2026-07-06
This is primarily an international policing scholarship/recruitment and training program, not a research opportunity, and the social-science or evaluation component is not named as a substantive part of the work. It touches national security through counternarcotics and anti-criminal-network objectives, but the fit for IPPRA’s research portfolio is weak. Public universities are eligible, but the opportunity is operational/service-oriented, so relevance remains low.
Legacy scoring history
| 2026-07-06 | 15 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is primarily an international policing scholarship/recruitment and training program, not a research opportunity, and the social-science or evaluation component is not named as a substantive part of the work. It touches national security through counternarcotics and anti-criminal-network objectives, but the fit for IPPRA’s research portfolio is weak. Public universities are eligible, but the opportunity is operational/service-oriented, so relevance remains low. |
| 2026-07-06 | 15 | gpt-5.4-mini | This is a foreign assistance/cooperative agreement focused on police recruitment and anti-criminal-organization capacity building in Colombia, which relates only broadly to national security. It does not center on the human/behavioral, policy, survey, or risk-communication research IPPRA typically leads, and the primary activity is operational program implementation rather than research. Public universities are eligible as named applicants or partners, but the fit for IPPRA is still very limited. |