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Concerns of Police Survivors
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 60,000 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 grassroots 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, the National Conference on Law Enforcement Wellness & Trauma, National Police Week assistance, survivor networks, and a variety of survivor 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.
Idaho Concerns of Police Survivors
The Idaho Chapter of the Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding the shattered lives of survivors and co-workers of peace officers lost in the line of duty. Our primary focus is to assist survivors living in Idaho. Our membership includes a mix of survivors whose officer’s end of watch occurred inside and outside of Idaho.
Through the auspices of our parent organization Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S), our chapter supports programs for survivors and training for law enforcement agencies on issues of trauma and line of duty deaths. 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 experience for young adults, special retreats for spouses, parents, siblings, adult children, fiancés, significant others, extended family, and co-workers, trial and parole support, and other assistance programs.
