MISSION STATEMENT Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc. provides resources to assist in the rebuilding of the lives of surviving families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty as determined by Federal criteria. Furthermore, COPS provides training to law enforcement agencies on survivor victimization issues and educates the public of the need to support the law enforcement profession and its survivors. |
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How COPS Came to Be On May 14, 1983, on the eve of the second annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service, ten young widows gathered around a table and talked about the tragedies that had fallen on their families that year and truly shattered their lives. Each and every widow had suffered the loss of their law enforcement spouse in the line of duty. That was the birth of the concept of Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc., which was officially organized on May 14, 1984. On that day 110 law enforcement survivors from all across the country gathered for the first annual National Police Survivors' Seminar held in Washington, DC. At that activity, the survivors voted unanimously to organize COPS as a totally separate entity from any police organization so the needs of any law enforcement surviving family could be met regardless of what police political affiliation the officer had with various police labor organizations. |
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BY LAWS OF THE SOUTH FL CHAPTER OF CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS The South FL Chapter oversees Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach. Martin, St Lucie, Collier, Lee, Hendry, Glades and Charlotte counties and Puerto Rico. |