The audience grows larger each year. The 21st annual ceremony of the 2014 Top Cops Awards, sponsored by the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), was held on May 13, 2014 in Washington, D. C. and 960 were in attendance — the largest crowd ever.
During the ceremony, 53 law enforcement officers from across the country were honored.
Here is this year’s roll call of Top Cop honorees.
FBI Hostage Rescue Team
 Brock Bahe
 Rodney O. Draper
 Christian Galeski
 J. Michael Montoya
 Matthew R. Nagle
Phoenix (Ariz.) Police Department
 Detective Fabian Gonzalez
Washington Metropolitan Police Department
 Dorian DeSantis
 Emmanuel Smith
 Scott Williams
U. S. Park Police
 Carl E. Hiott
 Andrew W. Wong
Naval Investigative Service
 Brian E. Kelley
 Edward J. Martin
 Joshua D. Powell
Miami-Dade (Fla.) Police Department
 Mario Gutierrez
North Liberty (Iowa) Police Department
 Adam E. Olson
 Chris Shine
 Cody Lane Jacobsen
Boston (Mass.) Police Department
 Kevin E. Waggett
 Kenneth M. Conley
 John B. Joyce
 Joseph G. Scaringello
 Omar Borges
 Gergory R. Eunis
 Jarrod Gero
 Jean Gerard Jean Louis
 Terence Long
 Gregory McCormick
 Richard G. Moriarty
 John Moynihan
 John M. Noberini
 Jason A. Nunez
 Scott Pulchansingh
 Dennis O. Simmonds
 Walter J. Suprey
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit Police
 Richard Donohue
Massachusetts State Police
 Christopher J. Dumont
Watertown Police Department
 John C. P. MacLellan
 Jeffrey J. Pugliese
 Miguel A. Colon, Jr.
 Michael W. Comick
 Timothy B. Menton
 Joseph Reynolds
 Jean S. Sarkissian
Mercer County (New Jersey) Sheriff’s Office
 William Miller
Trenton (New Jersey) Police Department
 James E. Lets
Edgar Rios
New York City Police Department
 Joseph John Koch
Solon (Ohio) Police Department
 Steven Davis
 Nicholas Kline
Dallas (Texas) Police Department/U. S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force
 Frederick E. Frazier
 Kurt Hibbets
Grapevine (Texas) Police Department
 Ryan Sayre