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Police Volunteer Opportunities
The Phoenix Police Department encourages residents and stakeholders to learn about activities they can participate in as volunteers. Click on the name of each opportunity to learn how it supports our mission and commitment to inclusion and transparency.
Citizens Offering Police Support (COPS)
The Phoenix Police Department offers the COPS program so that citizen volunteers or college interns can support the department from within in a non-enforcement capacity.
COPS has volunteer assignments in over 40 different specialty details in four different categories:
- Investigations
- Traffic
- Administration
- Crime Lab (with a BS in Biology or Science)
While some COPS Volunteers donate up to 40 hours per week, the minimum requirement is 4 hours per week to support the department. Donated time must be Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-4 p.m.
Steps to join the COPS program:
- Follow the application instructions
- Turn in the application either by mail or in person
- The Employment Services background investigator calls you to schedule an interview
- Polygraph exam
- Reference check
- Drug screen
The approval process can take an average of three months to complete.
Volunteer Opportunities
Traffic
Investigations
- Counter Terrorism
- Cold-Case
- Homicide
- Missing Persons
- Sex Crimes Property Crimes
- Crime Free Multi-Housing
- Phoenix Neighborhood Patrol
- Document Crimes
- Gang Unit
- Ballistics/NIBIN
- Child Crimes
- Crisis Outreach Volunteers (COV)
Administrative
- Silent Witness
- Code Enforcement
- Information Technologies
- Front Desk Aide
- COPS Administrative Assistant
- Precinct Desk Aide
- Firearms Detail
- Air Unit
- Crime Analysis And Research (CARU)
- Central Booking
- Property Management Bureau
- Phoenix Police Cadets
Laboratory
- Crime Scene Response Unit (CSRU)
- Crime lab