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

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"

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

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

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.

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

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