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July 26, 2000 |
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JODY HEDEMAN COUSER |
CELEBRITIES WHO PORTRAY COPS TO HONOR REAL COPS
SEVENTH ANNUAL TOP COPS AWARDS®
WASHINGTON, DC – Celebrities from NBC’s hit programs including Law & Order, Law &Order: Special Victims Unit and Third Watch plan to honor real cops at the Seventh Annual TOP COPS Awards®. Also appearing will be celebrities from Homicide: Life on the Street and Hill Street Blues. Sponsored by the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), the Seventh Annual TOP COPS Awards will take place Saturday, August 5, 2000, 7:00 p.m., at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC. The event is open to the press.
Richard Belzer of NBC’s “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” will be serving as co-emcee of the prestigious event, along with Lynne Russell, a Fulton County (GA) Reserve Deputy Sheriff and anchor of CNN’s “Headline News”, as they have for the past six years. Barring any schedule changes, celebrity presenters include; Michael Beach, Coby Bell, Bobby Cannavale, Eddie Cibrian, Anthony Ruivivar and Skipp Sudduth of NBC’s “Third Watch;” Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson and Jerry Orbach of NBC’s “Law & Order;” Dann Florek, Mariska Hargitay, Michelle Hurd, Stephanie March and Christopher Meloni of NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit;” Ed Marinaro of NBC’s “Hill Street Blues;” and Yaphet Kotto of NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Many other television celebrities are still confirming. Also expected are several members of Congress and the Administration.
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Sometimes compared to as the Oscars for cops, the TOP COPS Awards® is a “Hollywood style” production that pays tribute to law enforcement officers from across the country for outstanding service to their communities during the preceding year. The TOP COPS® were nominated by fellow officers and selected from hundreds of nominations by an Awards Committee. Officers from the top ten cases have been chosen as the 2000 TOP COPS®.
The 2000 TOP COPS® winners represent some of the nation’s best in police work. The winners include; several officers involved in life threatening shoot outs; a cybercrime super-sleuth; a trooper involved in a daring rescue in Alaska’s frozen wilderness; an undercover agent with the ATF who cracked one of the nation’s most violent biker gangs; a detective who busted up a large prostitution ring involving young girls; an officer that jumped into an icy river, saving the life of a motorist whose car had gone off the bridge; and an agent with the DEA that cracked a large international drug trafficking operation.
The National Association of Police Organizations is a national law enforcement organization representing 220,000 sworn law enforcement officers and 4,000 police unions and associations throughout the country. Based in Washington, D.C., NAPO fights for the rights of law enforcement officers through federal legislation, legal advocacy and education. TOP COPS Awards® proceeds will benefit the Police Research and Education Project; NAPO’s sister educational organization, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund; and Concerns of Police Survivors.
To learn more about the TOP COPS Awards® or to reserve a press pass for the event, contact Jody Couser, National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) at (202) 842-3560.
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The National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) is a coalition of police unions and associations from across the United States that serves in Washington, DC to advance the interests of America's law enforcement officers through legislative and legal advocacy, political action and education. Founded in 1978, NAPO now represents more than 4,000 police unions and associations, over 220,000 sworn law enforcement officers, 3,000 retired officers and more than 100,000 citizens who share a common dedication to fair and effective crime control and law enforcement.
FOR INTERVIEWS OF NAPO'S GENERAL COUNSEL,
PLEASE CALL JODY HEDEMAN COUSER AT THE NAPO OFFICE (202) 842-3560.
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