How we help
COPS provides peer support opportunities to bring survivor families – the families of police officers who have lost their lives on duty – together, as well as access to counselling and specialist bereavement services.
How we helped one survivor…
I have benefitted so much from the charity and love to support any other child who has gone or is going through a similar ordeal to myself. I believe it is important to establish these relationships and I think the COPS weekend really helps to forge bonds between families
How we help: Peer support opportunities
COPS is a peer support charity. We help families of police officers who have lost their lives on duty, known as survivors, to support other survivors in practical ways. We arrange local and national events that enable survivors to build friendships and bonds that support them through the good times and bad.
COPS brings survivor families together, connecting survivors with others who truly understand, by virtue of having been in the same situation themselves.
We run a number of peer support weekends throughout the year. Some of these are aimed at bringing together survivors with a specific relationship to the officer, for example a spouse or partner, while others are based on a particular theme or activity.
Counselling support
COPS works with two organisations, Winston’s Wish and RedArc, to provide counselling and specialist bereavement support for families.
Counselling support for families with children up to the age of 18, provided by bereavement charity Winston’s Wish.
All COPS families can access the full range of support from Red Arc’s Personal Nurse Advisers.
How we help: Driving lessons
COPS funds driving lessons for the surviving children of police officers or staff who have lost their lives on duty.
After many donations were made in memory of the late COPS co-founder Jim McNulty, COPS was able to start funding driving lessons for the surviving children, up to the age of 25, of police officers or staff who have lost their lives on duty. Jim was an instructor at the police driving school and was acutely aware that having driving lessons from a parent could be something that a surviving child could miss out on.
Courtesy of the Jim McNulty Memorial Fund, COPS will pay for each surviving child of an officer who lost their life on duty, to have 10 driving lessons. If you are a survivor please log into the COPS Survivor portal to make an application.
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Care of Police Survivors (COPS) is a charity that supports the families of police officers and staff who have lost their lives on duty.
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