TCOPA was formed to educate, train and instruct Citizens on Patrol (COP), Neighborhood Watch, Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS) , Code Blue , Wise Eyes and other law enforcement volunteer groups across Texas. Law Enforcement Volunteers greatly enhance the departments’ community policing concept.

Hopefully you were able to make it to the TCOPA 2025 conference. Round Rock were excellent hosts. We saw a lot of good training and networking over those couples of days in the beginning of August.

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Educational and Instructional Opportunities

TCOPA with a host agency (or agencies) provides an annual conference presenting relevant and useful training sessions. We also want to sponsor targeted training at the regional level through out the year.

Some of the courses that have been offered at past conferences are listed below as examples of the training you can see. Every year the hosting city reviews and chooses new training base upon the needs of members .

• Human Trafficking
• Homeland security
• DWI recognition
• Suspicious Activity ( Day and Night )
• Precision Driving Course
• Drug activity
• Handicap Parking enforcement
• FBI debriefs
• Self Defense
• Situational Awareness
• Radio Communications
• Round Table Discussions
• etc.

TCOPA also provides a Citizens on Patrol Certification Course during each yearly conference. The C.O.P. Certification course is an in-depth Citizens Patrol Class. TCOPA started to provide an Advanced certification course at the 2024 conference. These courses fill up quickly so register early to sign up.

TCOPA believes in the importance of volunteerism and especially in the field of law enforcement. Our mission is to provide the type of ongoing training for police volunteers to assist them in the performance of non-law enforcement functions so that police officers can be available to answer higher priority calls. C.O.P. volunteers are the additional eyes and ears for law enforcement. Police volunteers play a vital roll in their community by acting as a force multiplier for their local police department.