Each year since 1994 NAPO has presented the TOP COPS Awards® Ceremony.   The purpose of the TOP COPS Awards® is to educate the American public about our nation’s heroes and to pay tribute to law enforcement officers in federal, state, county, tribal and local agencies from across the country for actions above and beyond the call of duty during the preceding year. Our TOP COPS are nominated by fellow officers.  An independent Awards Selection Committee comprised of national law enforcement representatives select, from hundreds of nominations, one TOP COP case from each of the 50 States and U.S. territories.  Officers from the top ten cases are selected as our  TOP COPS Award® Winners.  In each remaining state, one case has been selected for which the officer(s) will receive an Honorable Mention award.   More

TOP COPS

FLORIDA

Miami-Dade Police Department

Detective Terence A. White Sr.
Detective Charles L. Woods

MONTANA

Butte-Silver Bow Law Enforcement

Sergeant Tim Berger
Lieutenant John O'Brien 
Officer Rich O'Brien

Montana Highway Patrol

Trooper Thomas Gill
Trooper Timothy R. Wyckoff

Powell County Sheriff Department

Deputy Austin Micu

NEVADA

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Sheriff Joseph Lombardo
Sergeant Josh Bitsko
Sergeant Greg Everett
SWAT Officer Levi Hancock
Officer Richard Golgart
Officer Casey Clarkson
Officer Brady Cook

NEW JERSEY

Atlantic City Police Department

Detective Thomas McCabe
Officer Josh L. Vadell

HONORABLE MENTIONS

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia

Officer James Albright
Officer Gunther Hashida
Officer Andrew Chan
Officer James Jacobs
Officer Samuel Modlin
Officer Sapan Patel
Officer Joseph Prendergast
Officer Terrence Welsh

ALABAMA

U.S. Marshalls Service

Task Force Officer Beau Bartel

Alabama Law Enforcement Agency

Task Force Officer Timothy Sandlin

Mobile County Sheriff's Office

Force Officer Jonathan Calametti
Task Force Officer James Gazzier
Task Force Officer Glen Gazzier
Task Force Officer Joseph Pica
Task Force Officer Joseph Goff

ARIZONA

Mesa Police Department

Officer Steven Hash

CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles Police Department

Officer Jonathan Adamson
Officer Nathaniel Beck
Officer Sonia Colavita
Officer Gregorio De La Rosa
Officer Aaron Harrington
Officer Patrick Hassell
Sergeant Michael Knoke
Officer Jesse Lopez
Officer Jeremy Paiz
Officer Jacob Rice
Officer Daniel Strojny
Officer David Sweet
Officer Alex Zamora

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut Department of Corrections

Captain Craig Burnett

New Haven Police Department

Detective Paul D'Andrea
Lieutenant Karl Jacobson
Detective Martin Podsiad 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives

Senior Special Agent Daniel Prather
Special Agent Scott Riordan

FLORIDA

Pasco Sheriff's Office

K-9 Deputy Nicholas Carmack
Deputy Michael Sudler

GEORGIA

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives

Special Agent Lee C. Hoover

Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department

Sergeant Samuel H. Hunt III
Corporal Michael Dean Dobson

ILLINOIS

Chicago Police Department

Officer Martin Hernandez
Officer Joel Lopez

INDIANA

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department

Sergeant Matthew Morgan