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Committee backs Cop2Cop funding to expand peer-support services for officers
Summary
The committee released legislation providing $500,000 for Cop2Cop, the statewide confidential peer-support hotline for law enforcement, after extensive testimony about rising officer suicide and demand for prevention, intervention and postvention services.
The Senate Law and Public Safety Committee released S1233, which would appropriate $500,000 to support Cop2Cop, New Jersey's confidential peer-support and crisis-intervention program for law-enforcement officers and their families.
Stephen Holmes, appearing for Cop2Cop, told the committee the program launched in 2001 and now handles thousands…
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