| Acronym | Definition |
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| COPS | Community Oriented Policing Services |
| COPS | Concerns of Police Survivors (support group for families of policemen killed on duty) |
| COPS | Chief of Operations |
| COPS | Common Open Policy Service (updated OOPS, IP Highway) |
| COPS | Current Operations |
| COPS | Computer Oracle and Password System |
| COPS | Committee of Public Safety (band) |
| COPS | Central Operations (various organizations) |
| COPS | California Organization of Police and Sheriffs |
| COPS | Centre of Policy Studies |
| COPS | Career Occupational Preference System |
| CoPS | Complex Products and Systems |
| COPS | Central Organization of Police Specialists |
| COPS | Common Open Policy Server |
| COPS | Coalition of Parent Support |
| COPS | Communications Outsourcing and Professional Services (Gartner) |
| COPS | Centralized Operations Police Suite |
| COPS | Complex Photonic Systems |
| COPS | City of Plano Swimmers |
| COPS | Collaborative Peer-To-Peer Systems (workshop) |
| COPS | Citizens Organized for Public Service |
| COPS | Capitalization Organization Punctuation Spelling (proofreading mnemonic) |
| COPS | Christians Obediently Preaching Salvation |
| COPS | Common Open Protocol Service |
| COPS | Crystal Operated Paint Sensor (paintball marker technology) |
| COPS | Citizens on Patrol Society (community service) |
| COPS | Coastal Ocean Prediction Systems Program |
| COPS | Configuration Management On-Line Processing System |
| COPS | communications operational planning system (US DoD) |
| COPS | Community Outreach Police Station |
| COPS | Computer-Oriented Partial Sum |
| COPS | Common Operations Picture System |
| COPS | Central Office Payphone System (PTI) |
| COPS | Capital letters, Overall appearance, Punctuation, Spelling (editing checklist) |
| COPS | Coherent Patrol Sum |
| COPS | Committee On Physical Security |
| COPS | Create On-Line Procurement System |
| COPS | Capacity Optimization Planning System |
| COPS | Commitment and Obligation Payment System |
| COPS | Communication Planning Support |
| COPS | Computer Output Processing Service |
| COPS | Contingency Operations, Space |
| COPS | Create On-Line Password System |
| COPS | Customer Owned Property Storage |
| COPS | Concentrator Open Primary Server |
| COPS | Computerized Oncology Profile System |
| COPS | Computerized Officer Planning System |
| COPS | Community Oriented Policing Specialist |
| CoPS | Control of Power Systems (research group) |