Fraternal Order of Police
Oregon Pioneer Lodge Number Four,
Portland Metro Area
On February 6, 1998 we were reorganized and rechartered as Oregon Pioneer Lodge #4. We started in January, 1996 with 12 officers all from the Department of Veterans Affairs Police, Portland Division. We now include officers from the U.S. Federal Protective Service. Yes that means that all of our charter members are "FEDS", but we are accepting applications from all law enforcement agencies in
What does it cost?
Well, believe it or not...each member of the F.O.P. only pays $4.50 dues a year to the Grand Lodge. Now as individual groups establish their own local FOP lodges, they make their local lodge dues what ever they see fit...every local lodge differs, depending on what the membership wants. Except for the small yearly dues to the Grand Lodge, the membership money stays local. Our Lodge dues are $60.00 per year. If you pay at the beginning of the dues year with one payment, we give you a $15.00 discount. Just think, $45.00 per year and only $5.50 goes to support the National Grand Lodge. The rest of the money stays right here to support you!
Fraternalism means helping each other!
Oregon Pioneer Lodge #4 is not seeking to take over local department's associations. The FOP is only promoting brotherhood among all Law Enforcement Officers and offer the benefits smaller department's police associations may not be able to provide. Let your association take care of the contractual needs, and let the FOP take care of your legal defense and promote fraternalism.
Members in the Portland Metro area have joined the FOP for the fraternalism and the legal defense protection! Oregon Pioneer Lodge #4, through it's nationwide connections would gladly assist any local department's association or guild (who's members are FOP) with contractual issues by finding qualified experts to assist. Many smaller departments do not have good representation on the contractual battlefront, due to lack of funds, or connections. You do not have to join an expensive union to get this excellent support. The FOP can help you.
LODGE OFFICERS
Fraternal Order of Police c/o Oregon Pioneer Lodge #4
4690 S.W. Watson Avenue
Beaverton, Oregon 97005
Two Pittsburg officers, Martin Toole and Delbert Nagle, knew that first Law Enforcement Officers must organize, and taking big risk with a handful of officer s they held the first meeting of the FOP on May 14, 1915. They informed the mayor of their intentions "to bring our aggrievances before the Mayor or Council and have many things adjusted that we are unable to present in any ot her way...we could get many things through our legislature that our Council will not, or cannot give us."
From that small beginning of 23 officers, the FOP has grown
into a National Organizationknown as the most powerful voice of law enforcement, and one of the most powerful interest groups in Washington DC.
The FOP currently has over 2000 lodges and near 300,000 members in the United States. Due to it's effectiveness,
the FOP is also chartering in other nations as well. We continue to grow because we have been true to the tradition and continued building on it. The Fraternal Order of Police are proud professionals working on behalf of law enforcement officers from all ranks and levels of government. Yes, even sheriffs, chiefs, captains, lieutenants and sergeants are members, and can join. We don't close our ranks on our members after collecting dues for years. Also, in many instances the FOP is the only representation these leaders have, as many unions discard them for advancing their carears!
The pride is back, officers are looking better, and morale is increasing. Though many of the Original Charter Members from 1996 have moved on to other federal, state, and local agencies, the lodge gave all of us hope of a better future, and, we hope, we have left behind us a good legacy of comradship and professionalism that our department was lacking. This is only the beginning!
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