Welcome to COPS "N" JOCKS



In UNITY the agencies involved in the COPS "N" JOCKS program, peace officers, sheriffs deputies and highway patrol officers go the extra mile in supporting our local high schools, their athletic programs and student body. We believe in this police-community partnership and hope that our efforts and guidance make a difference in some of the difficult decisions faced by today’s youth.

In SPIRIT we demonstrate our agencies support of our high schools on the field and in the classroom. Our cops go beyond the normal duties of serving their community and get to know their community.

In PRIDE the individual officers represent their agency and the COPS "N" JOCKS program. We are proud to be accepted onto our teams not as a peace officer but as an individual human being.

Through UNITY, SPIRIT and PRIDE, we the law enforcement agencies and high schools in the COPS "N" JOCKS program combine our efforts through partnership to educate our communities facing important issues facing our young adults.

History
In 1993, a young man contemplated a simple idea, small but with a large impact. Peace officers, out of a police car, away from the office and on the sideline, in the dugout and on the basketball courts; not in uniform but with the students, not being paid, but because they wanted to be there. This program would need support, schools to participate, agencies to get involved and most importantly, financial support. The Santa Paula Police Officers Association in 1993, the second smallest agency and association in the County of Ventura agreed to sponsor and allow the Cops ‘N Jocks Program to utilize their name and non-profit status to operate. The City of Santa Paula also allowed the use of some of its services so the program could operate. The SPPOA, in 1995, paid the State of California $1,000 so that Cops ‘N Jocks could incorporate into its own non-profit, copyrighted program. Now, the City of Santa Paula still bears the “Home of the Cops ‘N Jocks Program” Title, the program is now found in nine states and has the only mascot police vehicle in the nation.