1. Short title This Act may be cited as the COPS Improvements Act of 2017 . 2. COPS grant improvements (a) In general Section 1701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 42 U.S.C. 3796dd ) is amended— (1) by striking subsection (c); (2) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); (3) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following: (a) The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (1) Office There is within the Department of Justice, under the general authority of the Attorney General, a separate and distinct office to be known as the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (referred to in this subsection as the COPS Office ). (2) Director The COPS Office shall be headed by a Director who shall— (A) be appointed by the Attorney General; and (B) have final authority over all grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts awarded by the COPS Office. (b) Grant authorization The Attorney General shall carry out grant programs under which the Attorney General makes grants to States, units of local government, Indian tribal governments, other public and private entities, and multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia for the purposes described in subsections (c), (d), (e), and (f). ; (4) in subsection (c), as so redesignated— (A) in the heading, by striking Uses of grant amounts .— and inserting Community policing and crime prevention grants .— ; (B) in paragraph (3), by striking , to increase the number of officers deployed in community-oriented policing ; (C) in paragraph (4), by inserting or train after pay for ; (D) by striking paragraph (13); (E) by redesignating paragraphs (5) through (12) as paragraphs (6) through (13), respectively