About Us

Concerns of Police Survivors

MISSION - Rebuilding shattered lives of survivors and co-workers affected by line of duty deaths.

VISION - C.O.P.S. is the premier organization providing exceptional lifelong services and peer support to surviving family members and co-workers following a line-of-duty death as well as vital law enforcement wellness and trauma training.

Each year, between 140 and 160 officers are killed in the line of duty and their families and co-workers are left to cope with the tragic loss. Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) provides resources to help them rebuild their shattered lives. There is no membership fee to join C.O.P.S., for the price paid is already too high.

C.O.P.S. was organized in 1984 with 110 members. Today the organization has grown to over 65,000 survivors. The organization was started to assist family members and co-workers of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Currently C.O.P.S. has over 50 chapters nationwide that work with survivors at the grass roots level.

At the onset of a line of duty death, our board members are trained to provide a number of services, none more important than survivor peer support and grief counseling. Additionally, C.O.P.S. offers financial support, scholarships, Annual National Conference, National Police Week Assistance, survivor networks and a variety of survivor program retreats. All of which is free of charge to survivors.

C.O.P.S. is trained to assist with the planning and preparing of a line of duty death funeral, preparing departments with post administrative roles including Public Safety Officer’s Benefits (PSOB) and national and state memorial enrollment.