Executive Director
Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.)
Camdenton, Missouri, United States
Deputy Chief Dianne Bernhard of the Columbia, MO, Police Department retired after 22 years of service to become the Executive Director of C.O.P.S. in March 2014. Dianne came to know C.O.P.S. through the line-of-duty death of a co-worker, Officer Molly Bowden, in 2005. She had been aware of the great care that C.O.P.S. gave to the officer’s family ever since Molly’s death and decided to honor her friend Molly by spending her second career working as a leader in the C.O.P.S. organization, helping surviving family members and co-workers of officers who have died in the line of duty, training agencies on how to respond to LODD, and developing a National Conference on Officer Wellness and Trauma.
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