Creates a Justice Department grant program that lets state, local, Tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies hire retired officers to train staff and handle civilian tasks such as reviewing camera footage and analyzing crime scenes, with background-check and audit requirements.

• Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to add a grant program for hiring retired law enforcement personnel for civilian tasks such as homicide and carjacking investigation support, financial crimes support, camera footage review, crime scene analysis, forensics, and computer expertise.
• Excludes arrests and the use of force under color of law from the civilian tasks covered.
• Requires grantees to make a good faith effort to check each retired officer's disciplinary and internal investigation records through the National Decertification Index or former employers' personnel records, and requires the top law enforcement official or a designee to review any misconduct findings before a hiring decision.
• Requires Inspector General audits of grantees, bars grantees with unresolved audit findings from new grants for two fiscal years, gives priority to applicants without such findings, requires annual certification to Congress, and requires reports on multiple grants awarded for similar purposes.

• Judiciary Committee (Senate)

Crime and Law Enforcement