European Confederation of Police

EuroCOP
European Confederation of Police
	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Location	Europe;
Members	230,000
Key people	Jonne Rinne, President
Affiliations	ETUC
Website	eurocop.org

The European Confederation of Police (EuroCOP) is the

Luxembourg

.

EuroCOP represents its members in European matters and at

Guardia Civil

.

EuroCOP is part of the ETUC and ETUF making it one of the 10 union federations in Europe and the only one representing European police officers as an individual sector.

It is a member of the Council of Europe being part of the Conference of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) of the Council of Europe. EuroCOP is a member of ICPRA.

It is registered as a lobbyist.^[1]

In 2016 then EuroCOP president Àngels Bosch Campreciós met President Juncker ^[2] and in 2018 she met Commissioner Julian King ^[3]

The organization should not be confused with the idea of "Euro-Cops",

EUROPOL

police officers, whose jurisdiction would reach into all of Europe.

Background

The European Confederation of Police (EuroCOP) is the umbrella organisation for 30 police unions and staff organisations in Europe, which includes more than 230,000 police officers from 25 countries. EuroCOP was founded in a conference in 2002 in Roskilde, Denmark as a revision to the precious Union Internationale des Syndicats de Police (UISP), which had existed since 1953. The organization was created to allow police organizations from the United Kingdom to join. EuroCOP are members of the European Union Institutions, which allows the union to have a say in the council of Europe. The goal is to enhance the police work under democratic control, to prevent private investor of police duties, and to create norms for the police employees.

No. 83/2012 European Confederation of Police (EUROCOP) v. Ireland

EuroCOP filled a complaint against Ireland on 7 June 2012, dealing with the fact that police representative associations in Ireland do not have full trade union rights, including the right to join an umbrella organisation. An umbrella organization is an association of institutions, who work together formally to coordinate activities or pool resources. The EuroCOP requested that Ireland grants complete full trade union rights for the police representations in Ireland. Meaning, that the police representative associations are kept out of the overall national negotiations that ICTU conduct on behalf of their members, such as those on salaries in the public service.^[4]