FBI New Orleans Division

The Community Outreach Program (COP) is a comprehensive program that addresses multiple interrelated societal problems, including crime, drugs, gangs, and violence, while supporting the FBI's investigative mission.

The COP Coordinator's responsibility is to create and assist crime, drug, gang and violence prevention and education programs to meet the needs of the community. The FBI New Orleans Division's Coordinator makes presentations, distributes resource materials, and participates in community anti-crime projects within the schools, communities and business.

The COP Coordinator's duties also include:

• fostering appropriate communication between the FBI's law enforcement and prevention initiatives;
• establishing a network of resources throughout the area disseminating prevention materials, facilitating prevention programs, speeches, events, etc;
• coordinating the development and growth of FBI national partnerships at the local level;
• educate the community about the mission of the FBI.

On November 9, 2006, New Orleans Division employees delivered FBI hats and Teddy Bears to patients of Children's Hospital. Here, Special Agent in Charge Jim Bernazzani (right) and Information Technology Specialist Suzanne Cox (far right) pose with a patient wearing an FBI hat and badge sticker.	FBI Special Agent Mark Gibbons and Victim Witness Specialist Sarah Abdullah (far right) give a patient a blue teddy bear.

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Last modified: July 30, 2007