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Mission Statement
Rebuilding shattered lives
of survivors and co-workers affected by line of
duty deaths, through partnerships with law
enforcement and the community.
About Us
New Mexico Concerns of
Police Survivors (New Mexico C.O.P.S.) provides
resources to help rebuild the lives of surviving
families and co-workers of law enforcement
officers killed in the line of duty, as defined
by federal criteria. The organization also
offers training to law enforcement agencies on
survivor victimization issues and works to
educate the public on the importance of
providing ongoing support to both the law
enforcement profession and its survivors.
All donations made to New
Mexico C.O.P.S. remain in New Mexico and
directly support New Mexico survivors. Funds are
used to assist with activities such as sending
families to National Police Week in Washington,
D.C., supporting the funeral response team,
covering training costs, and other related
survivor support initiatives.
About C.O.P.S.
Each year, between 140 and
160 officers die in the line of duty and their
families and co-workers are left to cope.
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 individual members.
Today, C.O.P.S. membership is over 87,000
survivors.
Survivors include spouses, kids, adult
children, parents, siblings, fiancés,
significant others, extended family (aunts,
uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, grandchildren,
grandparents, and in-laws), co-workers, and
suicide survivors (as determined by the Public
Safety Officer Support Act of 2022) of officers
who have died in the line of duty according to
Federal government criteria.
C.O.P.S.
is governed by a national board of law
enforcement survivors.
All survivors’ weekends and camps,
trainings, and other services are administered
by the National Office in Camdenton, Missouri.
C.O.P.S. has 53 chapters nationwide that
work with survivors at the grass-roots level.
C.O.P.S. programs for
survivors include the National Police Survivors'
Conference held each May during National Police
Week; scholarships; peer-support at the
national, state, and local levels; "C.O.P.S.
Kids" counseling reimbursement program; the
"C.O.P.S. Kids" Summer Camp, "C.O.P.S. Teens"
Outward Bound Adventure for young adults,
special weekends for spouses, parents, siblings,
adult children, extended family, and co-workers;
trial and parole support, and other assistance
programs.
C.O.P.S. knows
that a survivor's level of distress is directly
affected by the agency's response to the
tragedy.
C.O.P.S., therefore, offers training and
assistance to law enforcement agencies
nationwide on how to respond to the tragic loss
of a member of the law enforcement profession.
C.O.P.S. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization.
C.O.P.S. survivor weekends and camps,
trainings, and other services are funded by
grants and donations.
Board Members
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