SPOKANE, Wash. – Spokane’s Community Oriented Policing Services (C.O.P.S.) is looking for new sources of financial support after failing to renew their contract with the City of Spokane.

In a release from C.O.P.S. about the search for funding, Board Chairman Jim Wilson said that the organization is looking for funding so it can continue “indefinitely.”

“Currently, the COPS program has barely enough money to make it through the end of 2025,” Wilson said. “We will need a lot of help from the community if this program is going to continue. We are all volunteers. There is no paid staff.”

Wilson said that the program has about 100 volunteers and a reestablished Board of Directors under Wilson’s leadership.

Wilson said that Mayor Lisa Brown’s office broke off negotiations with C.O.P.S. over

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