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 

HONORABLE MENTIONS 

ALABAMA
Huntsville Police Department
Patrolman Chass Shannon 

ARKANSAS
United States Drug Enforcement Administration
Task Force Officer Johnny Sowell

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles Police Department
Police Officer II Christopher Gonzalez 

Los Angeles Police Department
Police Officer III Eddie Roca
Police Officer III Royce Burroughs
Police Officer III Luis Valle 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Metropolitan Police Department
Police Officer Claude Jackson Jr.
Police Officer Johel Anthony Sanchez 

GEORGIA
Sandy Springs Police Department
Sergeant Andrew Rausch 

KENTUCKY
Kentucky State Police
Trooper Elliott M. Young

ILLINOIS
Chicago Police Department
Police Officer Tobias Houston
Police Officer Michael Kocerka
Police Officer Jack Kwa
Police Officer Bernard Lee 

MARYLAND
Baltimore County Police Department
Police Officer First Class Matthew V. Irwin
Police Officer First Class Aaron M. Norton
Police Officer First Class Steven B. Becketts
Police Officer First Class Kelvin T. Davis, Jr.

MASSACHUSETTS
Winthrop Police Department
Sergeant Nicholas Bettano 

Boston Police Department
Police Officer Paulmichael Bertocchi
Police Officer Nicholas Cubarney
Police Officer Kyle Matthew Gilmore
Police Officer Kyle Holmes
Patrolman  Zachary MacInnis
Police Officer Max McGuire
Patrolman Chase Robichaud
Police Officer Kyle Christian Ryan

Boston Police Department
Police Officer Brendan M. Bosse
Police Officer Christopher R. Carr
Police Officer Brian R. Carlson
Police Officer Sean Francis
Police Officer Otis  C. Harewood
Police Officer Bruce W. Hicks
Police Officer Derek Marcoaldi
Police Officer Frank A. Nogueira
Police Officer Jamie Pietroski
Police Officer Michael Ridge
Police Officer Peter A.  Zographos
Sergeant John D. Conway
Sergeant Ian Mahoney
Sergeant Joel C. McCarthy

MICHIGAN
Detroit Police Department
Police Officer Michael Flannel
Police Officer Jerrit Parrish

Detroit Police Department
Police Officer Tylerscott Alleyne
Police Officer Nicholas Gushen