European Confederation of Police

EuroCOP

European Confederation of Police
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Location	Europe
Members	230,000
Key people	Jonne Rinne, President
Affiliations	ETUC
Website	eurocop.org

The European Confederation of Police (EuroCOP) is the umbrella organization umbrella organisation for 30 police unions and staff organisations in Europe. Representing the interests of over 230,000 police officers in 25 European countries, it was founded in 2002 at a conference in Roskilde, Denmark, emerging from the Union Internationale des Syndicats de Police (UISP), which had existed since 1953. It was created in order to enable further organizations, particularly ones from the United Kingdom, to join. The union's headquarters is in Luxembourg.

EuroCOP represents its members in European matters and at European Union institutions. For example, the union has an observer status at the Council of Europe. Its goals include enhancing the efficiency of police work under democratic control, the creation of norms for the qualifications of police employees, the preservation of the civil status of police officers, and the prevention of the privatization of police duties. One example of a current mission of EuroCOP has been to push the Spanish government to follow its election promise to completely de-militarize the Guardia Civil.

EuroCOP is part of the ETUC and ETUF making it one of the 10 union federations in Europe and the only one representing European police officers as an individual sector.

It is a member of the Council of Europe being part of the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) of the Council of Europe. EuroCOP is a member of ICPRA.

It is registered as a lobbyist.^[1]

In 2016 then EuroCOP president Àngels Bosch Campreciós met President Juncker ^[2] and in 2018 she met Commissioner Julian King ^[3]

The organization should not be confused with the idea of "Euro-Cops", EUROPOL police officers, whose jurisdiction would reach into all of Europe.