LAPD Officer Captures ‘Toughest Cop’ Title
Intense training and weightlifting paid off for Officer Terry Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department, the world’s Toughest Cop Alive Women’s Division champion, as she won the national tough cop “octathlon” competition in Washington over the weekend. She beat her closest opponent by more than 1,200 points in the 7,000-point competition.
Born in Pico Rivera, the 5-foot-7, 135-pound Lopez garnered a personal record as she climbed to the top of a 20-foot rope in 12 seconds, the only woman to reach the top under the 20-second time limit.
Lopez, who now lives in Santa Monica, works in the South Bureau of the LAPD’s Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums or CRASH unit in Watts.
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