Cop
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Cop is a slang term for a police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

 official.

Cop or Cops may refer to:

Organizations

  • Conference of the Parties, the governing body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
    United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
    The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development , informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to 14, 1992...

  • Conference of the Parties, the governing body of the Convention on Biological Diversity
    Convention on Biological Diversity
    The Convention on Biological Diversity , known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is an international legally binding treaty...

  • Conference of the Parties, the governing body of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
    United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
    The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies...

  • College of Paramedics
    College of Paramedics
    The College of Paramedics, formerly the British Paramedic Association, is the United Kingdom professional representative body for paramedics in the United Kingdom. The college has representation with the Health Professions Council , the Department of Health, the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance...

    , British association
  • Comité Olímpico de Portugal (COP), the Portuguese translation of Olympic Committee of Portugal
    Olympic Committee of Portugal
    The Olympic Committee of Portugal is a non-profit organisation of public utility, which serves as the National Olympic Committee for Portugal. It was founded on October 26, 1909, to ensure a timely, methodical and state-sponsored participation at the Games of the V Olympiad, in Stockholm...

  • ConocoPhillips
    ConocoPhillips
    ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational energy corporation with its headquarters located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United States...

    , with COP as its NYSE stock symbol
  • Council of Presidents
    Council of Presidents
    The Council of Presidents is the executive leadership body of the Vermont State Colleges , the governance organization for public colleges in the U.S. state of Vermont. The council is composed of a chancellor, the three vice presidents of the VSC, and the presidents of the five member colleges...

    , the executive leadership board of the Vermont State Colleges
  • Congress of the People (Trinidad and Tobago)
    Congress of the People (Trinidad and Tobago)
    The Congress of the People is a political party in Trinidad and Tobago. It is led by Prakash Ramadhar . Its symbol is the "Circle of Circles".- History :...

    , a political party in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Congress of the People (1955), an event in South Africa in 1955
  • Comité politique et de sécurité, the French name for the Political and Security Committee
    Political and Security Committee
    The Political and Security Committee, PSC is a permanent body within the European Union dealing with Common Foreign and Security Policy issues, including Common Security and Defence Policy.PSC, which is based in Brussels, consists of ambassadorial level representatives from the...

     of the Council of the European Union
  • Communities Organized for Public Service
    Communities Organized for Public Service
    Communities Organized for Public Service is a coalition of non-partisan, grassroots community pressure groups based in San Antonio, Texas. It is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas Foundation , a group dedicated to grassroots community organizing that was developed by Saul Alinsky in Chicago...

    , a San Antonio, Texas community organization
  • Community Oriented Policing Services
    Community Oriented Policing Services
    The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services is an agency within the United States Department of Justice. COPS was established through a provision in the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. Since 1994, COPS has provided $11.3 billion in assistance to state and local law...

    , a program under the US Department of Justice
  • Committee of Public Safety
    Committee of Public Safety
    The Committee of Public Safety , created in April 1793 by the National Convention and then restructured in July 1793, formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror , a stage of the French Revolution...

    , governmental organization that reigned during the most excessive and violent period of the French Revolution

Places

  • Canada Olympic Park
    Canada Olympic Park
    Canada Olympic Park is located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The park is operated by WinSport Canada formerly the Calgary Olympic Development Association . It is currently used both for high performance athletic training and for recreational purposes by the general public...

    , in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Centralny Okreg Przemyslowy, Polish name for the Central Industrial Region in Poland

Medicine

  • Cyclophosphamide, Oncovin, and Prednisone/Prednisolone, a variant of the chemotherapy regimen CHOP
    CHOP
    CHOP is the acronym for a chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. CHOP consists of:* Cyclophosphamide, an alkylating agent which damages DNA by binding to it and causing cross-links...

  • Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, alternate name for bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia
    Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia
    Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia is an inflammation of the bronchioles and surrounding tissue in the lungs. It is an non infectious pneumonia. BOOP is often caused by a pre-existing chronic inflammatory disease like rheumatoid arthritis. BOOP can also be a side effect of certain...

     (BOOP)
  • Colloid osmotic pressure, exerted by proteins in blood plasma that normally tends to pull water into the circulatory system

Physics

  • Center of pressure
    Center of pressure
    The center of pressure is the point on a body where the total sum of a pressure field acts, causing a force and no moment about that point. The total force vector acting at the center of pressure is the value of the integrated vectorial pressure field. The resultant force and center of pressure...

    , the point on a body where the sum total of the aerodynamic pressure field acts
  • Coefficient of performance, in thermodynamics, the ratio of the output heat of a pump to the supplied work

Computer science

  • C Object Processor
    C Object Processor
    The C Object Processor was a superset of the C programming language. It was used in the Vbase object-oriented database management system developed by Ontologic, Inc. The data model for Vbase was specified by a Type Definition Language . COP and TDL were influenced by CLU. By 1989, COP and TDL were...

     (COP), a superset of the C programming language
  • Common Operational Picture
    Common Operational Picture
    A common operational picture is a single identical display of relevant information shared by more than one Command...

    , a display of relevant troops position and status shared by military commanders
  • Computer Operating Properly, in embedded systems
  • COPS (software)
    COPS (software)
    COPS was the first common Unix computer system security scanning tool,created by Dan Farmer; Gene Spafford helped him start it in 1989 while Dan was in summer school at Purdue University.-Features:...

     or Computer Oracle and Password System, a UNIX system security checking package
  • Common Open Policy Service
    Common Open Policy Service
    The Common Open Policy Service Protocol is part of the internet protocol suite as defined by the IETF's RFC 2748. COPS specifies a simple client/server model for supporting policy control over Quality of Service signaling protocols...

    , a policy-based network management protocol
  • Co-processor interrupt, a type of software interrupt instruction for 65xx processors

Music

  • The Cops (US band), an American band
  • The Cops (band)
    The Cops (band)
    The Cops were formed in late 2003 by songwriter Simon Carter and bass player/keyboardist Rebecca Darwon in Sydney, New South Wales.-Biography:...

    , an Australian garage rock band who released their debut album Stomp on Tripwires in 2004
  • Cop (album)
    Cop (album)
    Cop is the second album by Swans.On Cop, Swans took the style of their previous LP, 1983's Filth, and intensified it, utilising slower tempos, more tape loops, and even more abrasive musical textures...

    , the second album by New York band Swans
  • Alkaline Trio song from their 1998 album Goddamnit
    Goddamnit
    Goddamnit is the debut album by the Chicago-based punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released October 13, 1998 through Asian Man Records.- Reception :...

  • COP International, a record label

Other entertainment

  • Cop (film), a 1988 thriller film
  • The Cop
    The Cop
    The Cop is a 1970 crime film directed by Yves Boisset and starring Michel Bouquet.-Cast:* Michel Bouquet - L'inspecteur Favenin* Françoise Fabian - Hélène Dassa* Gianni Garko - Dan Rover * Michel Constantin - Viletti...

    , a 1970 crime film
  • Cops (film)
    Cops (film)
    Cops is a 1922 comedy short silent film about a young man who accidentally gets on the bad side of the entire Los Angeles Police Department during a parade, and is chased all over town. It was written and directed by Edward F. Cline and Keaton.- Background and plot :This very Kafka-esque film is...

    , a 1922 short film directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
  • COPS (TV series)
    COPS (TV series)
    Cops is an American documentary/reality television series that follows police officers, constables, and sheriff's deputies during patrols and other police activities...

    , a long-running reality show on the Fox Network
  • The Cops (TV series)
    The Cops (TV series)
    The Cops is a British television series made by World Productions for the BBC.The production, set in the fictional town of Stanton in Northern England, was noted for its documentary-style camerawork and uncompromising portrayal of the police force...

    , a British television drama series
  • C.O.P.S 'N' Crooks (C.O.P.S.), a line of action figures that spawned brief comic and animated television series
  • C.O.P.S.
    C.O.P.S.
    C.O.P.S. is an American animated television series released by DIC Entertainment and Celebrity Home Entertainment...

    , the animated series based on the toy line
  • C.O.P.S. (comics)
    C.O.P.S. (Comics)
    C.O.P.S. was a fifteen-issue comic book series created based on a Hasbro toy line. The series was written by Doug Moench and published by DC Comics.-Issue 1:...


Games

  • CoP, short for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
    S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the sequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a first-person shooter computer game by Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the third game in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series....

    , a computer game
  • C.O.P. abbreviation for "close of play" (originally in cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    , now, by extension, any other activity).

Police-related

  • Commissioner of police, the title of the chief officer of many law enforcement agencies
  • Chief of police
    Chief of police
    A Chief of Police is the title typically given to the top official in the chain of command of a police department, particularly in North America. Alternate titles for this position include Commissioner, Superintendent, and Chief constable...

    , the title typically given to the head of a police department, particularly in North America
  • Community oriented policing, a policing strategy using community interaction to control crime

Miscellanea

  • Child Online Protection initiative(COP), is a global initiative created by ITU
    Itu
    Itu is an old and historic municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2009 was 157,384 and the area is 641.68 km². The elevation is 583 m. This place name comes from the Tupi language, meaning big waterfall. Itu is linked with the highway numbered the SP-75 and are flowed...

    , as part of the Global Cybersecurity Agenda, which aims to tackle cybersecurity holistically.
  • Colombian peso
    Colombian peso
    The peso is the currency of Colombia. Its ISO 4217 code is COP and it is also informally abbreviated as COL$. However, the official peso symbol is $. As 20 July 2011, the exchange rate of the Colombian peso is 1750 Colombian pesos to 1 U.S. dollar.-History:The peso has been the currency of Colombia...

    , whose ISO 4217 code is COP
  • Copper State Air Service, a United States airline whose ICAO airline designator
    Airline codes-C
    |-||SRJ|C Air Jet Airlines|SYRJET|Syrian Arab Republic||-||ORO|C N Air|CAPRI|Spain||-||TIP|C and M Aviation|TRANSPAC|United States||-||RWG|C&M Airways|RED WING|United States||-||RMU|C.S.P., Societe|AIR-MAUR|Mauritania||-||CBI...

     is COP
  • Code of Points (disambiguation), the scoring system used in gymnastics and figure skating
  • Community of practice
    Community of practice
    A community of practice is, according to cognitive anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, a group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. The group can evolve naturally because of the members' common interest in a particular domain or area, or it can be created...

    , a collaborative method of social learning
  • A component in some place names, e.g. Mow Cop
    Mow Cop
    Mow Cop is an isolated village which straddles the Cheshire–Staffordshire border, and is thus divided between the North West and West Midlands regions of England...

    , from an Anglo-Saxon word copp meaning "head"
  • Cost of products sold
    Cost of products sold
    Cost of products sold is the expense incurred by a company to sell a product. It includes raw and packing material costs, production costs , and certain freight costs....

    , the expense incurred by a company to sell a product
  • Common Operational Picture
    Common Operational Picture
    A common operational picture is a single identical display of relevant information shared by more than one Command...

    , term used by the military to describe the positioning of all assets
  • Contempt of Parliament
    Contempt of Parliament
    In some countries, contempt of parliament is the offence of obstructing the legislature in the carrying out of its functions, or of hindering any legislator in the performance of his or her duties. The offence is known by various other names in jurisdictions in which the legislature is not called...

    , an uncommon charge leading to non-confidence motions in Commonwealth countries
  • COP 357 Derringer
    COP 357 Derringer
    The COP 357 is a 4 shot Derringer type pistol chambered for the powerful .357 Magnum round. It was designed by Robert Hillberg, based on his earlier work on the Hillberg Insurgency Weapon.It was manufactured by the now defunct COP Inc...

    , a modern pepperbox pistol
  • Combat Outpost, a type of military base (for example, see Combat Outpost Shocker
    Combat Outpost Shocker
    COP Shocker is a U.S. Coalition base located in Zurbatiyah, Iraq. The base located parallel to Iraqi 3rd Region BDE Department of Border Enforcement . Assigned to the base is a contingent of US Border Military transition team, United States Border Patrol and US Canine unit. The base planning and...

    )
  • Coptic language
    Coptic language
    Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the current stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century. Egyptian began to be written using the Greek alphabet in the 1st century...

    , whose ISO 639-2 code is cop
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