What is the full form of COP?

Question

What is the full form of COP?

Answer 1

commissioner of police

Answer 2

Constable on Patrol (you would sign in using the shortened version CoP)

Of the copper buttons on the uniforms became the slang term "copper"

I dont think anyone really knows

Answer 3

citizen on patrol, crazy old pooh, cop a nut- meaning busted.

Answer 4

"Cop" does not have a full form. It is a slang word derived from the Old English word caper, meaning "to capture".

It is still used today in other forms, such as "to cop an attitude", or "to cop a feel".

Answer 5

Fridaddy got it.

Answer 6

Copper.

From "The Straight Dope":

The most likely explanation is that it comes from the verb "to cop" meaning to seize, capture, or snatch, dating from just over a century earlier (1704).

Answer 7

The above answers are probably correct. But alternatives exist (for instance, supposedly the copper buttons on a bobby's tunic). And far from being an archaic word, the verb is still in wide usage, in the phrase "cop a feel," especially by adolescents.

Answer 8

No one really knows, even Cecil from the straight dope.

I'll add one. Sir Robert Peale is the father of modern policing. He required individual numbers on the officer's badges for identification and accountability. These first numbers were made of copper. In some places the term cop isn't used but they call police "pealers" for Sir Robert, just as the some use "Bobby" for his first name.

I've always liked constable on patrol and thought that "to cop" was B.S.

Answer 9

If you are talking about a refrigeration cycle.. it means Coefficient of Performance.