Cop

Cop is a slang term for a police officer. It was originally coined as meaning literally "constable on patrol".

Cop or Cops may refer to:

Organizations

• Conference of the Parties, the governing body of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Conference of the Parties, the governing body of the Convention on Biological Diversity
• Conference of the Parties, the governing body of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• College of Paramedics, British association
• Comité Olímpico de Portugal (COP), the Portuguese translation of Olympic Committee of Portugal
• ConocoPhillips, with COP as its NYSE stock symbol
• Council of Presidents, the executive leadership board of the Vermont State Colleges
• Congress of the People (Trinidad and Tobago), 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 of the Council of the European Union
• Communities Organized for Public Service, a San Antonio, Texas community organization
• Community Oriented Policing Services, a program under the US Department of Justice
• Committee of Public Safety, governmental organization that reigned during the most excessive and violent period of the French Revolution

Places

• Canada Olympic Park, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Centralny Okreg Przemyslowy, Polish name for the Central Industrial Region in Poland
• As a component in some place names, e.g. Mow Cop, it came from an old word for "head"

Medicine

• Cyclophosphamide, Oncovin, and Prednisone/Prednisolone, a variant of the chemotherapy regimen CHOP
• Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia, alternate name for bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP)
• Colloid osmotic pressure, exerted by proteins in blood plasma that normally tends to pull water into the circulatory system

Physics

• 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 (COP), a superset of the C programming language
• Common Operational Picture, a display of relevant troops position and status shared by military commanders
• Computer Operating Properly, in embedded systems
• COPS (software) or Computer Oracle and Password System, a UNIX system security checking package
• Common Open Policy Service, a policy-based network management protocol
• Co-processor interrupt, a type of software interrupt instruction for 65xx processors
• Center of projection In computer graphics, COP refers to the center of projection.

Entertainment

• Cop (film), a 1988 thriller film
• The Cop, a 1970 crime film
• Cops (film), a 1922 short film directed by Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
• COPS (TV series), a long-running reality show on the Fox Network
• 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., the animated series based on the toy line
• The Cops (TV series), a British television drama series
• The Cops (US band), an American band
• The Cops (band), an Australian garage rock band who released their debut album Stomp on Tripwires in 2004
• Cop (album), the second album by New York band Swans
• Alkaline Trio song from their 1998 album Goddamnit
• COP, a record label recording the Norwegian band Artifact
• CoP, short for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, a computer game

Miscellanea

• Commissioner of police, the title of the chief officer of many law enforcement agencies
• Chief of police, the title typically given to the head of a police department, particularly in North America
• Community oriented policing, a policing strategy utilizing community interaction to control crime
• Colombian peso, whose ISO 4217 code is COP
• Copper State Air Service, a United States airline whose ICAO airline designator is COP
• Code of Points (disambiguation), the scoring system used in gymnastics and figure skating
• Construction and Operating Plan
• Community of practice, a collaborative method of social learning
• A component in some place names, e.g. Mow Cop from an Anglo-Saxon word copp meaning "head"
• Cost of products sold, the expense incurred by a company to sell a product
• Common Operational Picture, term used by the military to describe the positioning of all assets
• COP 357 Derringer, a modern pepperbox pistol
• Combat Outpost, a type of military base (for example, see Combat Outpost Shocker)

COP - in MIS, Communities of practice

See also

• Cop out (disambiguation)
• Copse, a small lowland woodland