As we approach Christmas here in the United States I’m struck, as always, by the emotions evoked by all the Christmas Carols and Traditional Music. I know this can be a special, busy, dangerous and wonderful time to be in law enforcement.
Christmas music reminds me of why we are here and how important the role of peace officer is now, and all year long. The next time you hear a Christmas Carol try listening as a police officer and see… Continue reading
Very sad, very moving farewell to four fallen heroes!
CopsAlive salutes you! Rest in Peace “Gone but not Forgotten!”
Source: Thanks to The Seattle Times
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Thinking about making a donation this holiday season?
Here are the law enforcement organizations that CopsAlive recommends that you consider for your donations.
National Police Suicide Foundation
Donate Your Time: CLICK HERE
Donate Your Money: CLICK HERE
The Pain Behind the Badge
Ask how you can donate to the scholarship program
National Police Wives Association
Spartan Cops
Help them out by buying some gear and then give that as a gift too!
Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.)
Donate Money: CLICK HERE
Other Ways to Donate: CLICK HERE
C.O.P.S. Colorado
Please Support My Local Chapter:
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund
Support the National Law Enforcement Museum as “A Matter of Honor”
CopLine
The first national hotline for law enforcement officers and their families
Get into the Holiday spirit and give back to your profession!
The worst news any law enforcement agency can hear is that an officer has been killed. How does an agency respond to those devastating words, “Officer down”?
Since 1996, Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) has provided highly acclaimed training to help agencies deal with officer death, injury, disability, police suicide, and the after effects of losing a close co-worker. The “Traumas of Law Enforcement” is recommended for Chiefs, Superintendents, Sheriffs, Chaplains, Dispatchers, Benefits Assistance Officers, Planning and Research officers, Employee Assistance employees, Liaison Officers, Special Operations Divisions, Victim Assistance personnel, any law enforcement officer, law enforcement family member, or law enforcement survivor.
While the “Traumas of Law Enforcement” trainings have usually been funded through Federal grants to Concerns of Police Survivors, C.O.P.S. paid the $90,000 cost for these trainings out of their general account in 2008 and raised funds from Streamlight®, GLOCK®, Harley-Davidson, the 100 Club of Houston, TX, and the Maryland and Indiana Chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors for the 2009 trainings. C.O.P.S. is now able to redirect funds from their general account and corporate contributions to other C.O.P.S. programs thanks to a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs of the U.S. Department of Justice. In May 2009, BJA announced a $1.5 million, 20-month grant to C.O.P.S. to fund the “Traumas of Law Enforcement” for 2010 and 2011.
The training is a three-day seminar, totaling 21 hours, providing law enforcement agencies with the tools needed… Continue reading
Let your blue lights shine for law enforcement during the holidays
For the past 21 years, Concerns of Police Survivors has asked law enforcement families, surviving families, and police supporters to burn a blue light in their windows during the holiday season. The blue light is symbolic of our remembrance of those officers who have made the supreme sacrifice and honors those officers who continue to work the violent streets of our nation.
The idea began in 1988 when Mrs. Dolly Craig wrote to C.O.P.S. that she would be putting two blue candles in her living room window that holiday season. One for her son-in-law, Daniel Gleason, who had been killed… Continue reading
I’ve often wondered how dangerous is our profession when compared to others?
When you compare ours to other professions, we as cops only just made it into the top 10 just recently. On the List of Most Dangerous Jobs we only made it to number 10 in 2007 and that was only because we as law enforcement officers were lumped in with other protective service occupations and that was just in the United States.
In 2007 police officers finally made it to number 10 according to this article on most dangerous jobs. “Badge-wielding types took a serious hit. Of all occupations, protective-service occupations suffered the greatest relative increase in workplace fatalities in 2007, jumping 20% to 314. Nearly one-half of those were police officers… Continue reading
You can now translate any of the pages on CopsAlive.com into 34 languages thanks to a gadget from Google Translate that you see in our right sidebar. Thanks to this modern technology we can be read by many more police officers around the world. Thanks Google! Learn more… Continue reading
Our first Teleseminar was broadcast live today over phone lines and free over the internet.
“5 Critical Concepts You Must Know to Start a Business” with Laurie Taylor.
Click the button below for the replay or to download an mp3 file for your audio player.
Learn more… Continue reading
Join CopsAlive Friday July 10, 2009 at 2 PM Mountain Time for our first Teleseminar training session on: “5 Critical Concepts You Must Know to Start a Business” with Laurie Taylor from FlashPoint!
For this free training session, targeted toward police officers… Continue reading
Start your New Year off right with a law enforcement cruise to the Exotic Caribbean as part of the CopsAlive Cruise 2010. We sail January 9th – 16th, from Port Canaveral near Orlando, Florida and you can be part of the fun and educational programs. We will be stopping in Cozumel, Belize (Central America), Isla Roatan (off the coast of Honduras) and in Costa Maya (Yucatan Penninsula) . For the last three years the staff at CopsAlive have been joining a larger group of internet entrepreneurs on a Carnival Cruise the second week of January and you are invited to join us in January 2010.
Here’s what’s happening. As a member of the CopsAlive group you will have a chance to meet with other cops in private meetings while… Continue reading
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