Police Organization Providing Peer Assistance - POPPA

09/24/2026

Recovery is possible. Take every step one day at a time. If you are struggling with alcohol, meds or other addictions, there is help.

Call POPPA. Your fellow trained cops are here for you.

Active 888-COPS-COP
Retired 800-599-1085

🤎 Recovery doesn’t always look like a huge comeback. Sometimes it looks like simply choosing not to give up today.

SAMHSA’s 2026 Recovery Month theme for September 14–18 is “Healing and Wellbeing in Recovery.”

Recovery isn’t only about what you’re leaving behind—it’s about what you’re building ahead.

It can mean protecting your peace, finding healthier ways to cope, rebuilding relationships, asking for help, setting boundaries, or rediscovering purpose.

Whether you’re recovering from addiction, grief, burnout, or simply a difficult season of life, there’s no perfect timeline.

Give yourself credit for the progress others may never see. 🤎

Keep choosing what brings you closer to peace, connection, and hope.

— Because of Tyler 🤎 Always.

09/24/2026

Never forget those who have perished and those who continue to suffer from 9/11 related cancers.

Marci SIMMs
Peter Woods
Joe Mcgarry

Out of state peers
Joe Murray and many others.

Get your 9/11 checkups.

Call POPPA retiree hotline
800-599-1085

09/15/2026

We Will Never Forget!

09/13/2026

Terri Tobin was a POPPA peer officer and a true 9/11 hero.

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Monumental Women This is the 8th in a series honoring women of Ground Zero. On September 11, 2001, Lieutenant Terri Tobin, assigned to the NYPD’s Office of Public Information, responded to the World Trade Center after the first plane hit. As she made her way to the mobilization area, a superior officer told her to put a helmet on. That initial action later saved her life when she was hit with a chunk of cement that split her Kevlar helmet and embedded in her head in the collapse of the South Tower. Read Lieutenant Tobin’s account of her harrowing day — evacuating people, digging herself and others out of the debris, getting caught in the second tower’s collapse that left a pane of glass embedded in her back in the Smithsonian Magazine special 9/11 20-year anniversary issue and in the book The Women At Ground Zero. Despite her serious injuries from that day, Tobin stayed in the NYPD, retiring as Chief of Interagency Operations in 2024.

Here is the link to the Smithsonian Magazine article mentioned above
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/personal-remembrances-loss-struggle-resilience-september11-180978361/

Photo courtesy of the NYPD.

09/12/2026

We remember the NYPD POPPA Peers who were killed on 9/11 and those who died as a result of 9/11 related illness.

Sgt John Coughlin 9/11

NYPD Related Ilnesses
Lt Marci simms
Sgt Peter Woods
PO Joe Mcgarry

Out of town peers
Sheriff James Jones, Shelby County, AL
CO Joe Murray, Ulster County, NY

NEVER FORGET.

09/11/2026

Never forget the lives lost that day and those who continue to suffer

09/11/2026

Never forget

09/07/2026

Call POPPA 888-COPS-COP

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