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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. 

WAStateC.O.P.S. is one of these chapters, founded in 1996. Chapters assist survivors to attend programs, receive counseling and therapy, and other mechanisms designed to help them rebuild their shattered lives.

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.