Who we are:
The Fraternal Order of Police is the world's largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers, with more than two thousand one hundred lodges and over 326,000 members.
We are the voice of those who dedicate their lives to protecting and serving our communities. We are committed to improving the working conditions of law enforcement officers and the safety of those we serve through education, legislation, information, community involvement, and employee representation.
No one knows the dangers and the difficulties faced by today's police officers better than another officer, and no one knows police officers better than the FOP. Founded in 1915, we are still "Building on a Proud Tradition."
Important Announcements:
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Welcome Salt Lake City Police Lodge 29!
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Utah State Lodge Annual Conference June 11, 2009 - Wendover
FOP members, Bob Lucking needs to collect an annual report from each of your lodges to include in the books for the State Conference on June 11th. Please prepare a report outlining your lodge's accomplishments for the past year and include any information that might be interesting or helpful to the other local lodges; a few lines or an entire page. Please send your reports to Bob at robert.lucking [at] parkcity.org Thanks!!
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ANNUAL UTAH STATE FOP CONVENTION in WENDOVER, NV at the Montego Bay Hotel June 11-13, 2009
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Meeting with League of Cities and Towns May 13, 2009
URS Presentation by Dan Anderson
Today in a meeting with the
Utah Retirement System the following possible changes
to the retirement system were talked about;
--Suspend/lower the 1.5% contributions that School Teachers and State employees get in their 401K’s.
--Suspend/lower the Post Retirement 410 K contributions if a person retires and then goes to work for another department.
--Extend the final average salary period from 3 years to 4 or 5 years.
--Make COLA’s after retirement discretionary or delay them for retirees until they reach a certain age. (60 or 65 was discussed)
--Put a minimum age condition on the 30 year benefit (55, 57,60, other?)
--Partial benefit payments until a certain age (phased retirement)
--Reduce the retirement multiplier from 2% to 1.75%.
--Increase the 20 year Public Safety and Firefighter requirement to 25 years
--Put a minimum age condition
on the 20 year benefit for Public Safety and Firefighter Benefit. (48,
50, 52, other?)
These are some of the possible
changes that the Retirement System wants to recommend. The URS
is going to sit down with the Firefighters, Police, City, County and
State Administrators in the next few months to try and come up with
the best recommendations for the next legislative session. If
we don’t make a recommendation the men and women on Capitol Hill will
come up with their own ways to help out the URS.
The question was asked if these
possible changes are necessary now. Mr. Anderson said that they
are, necessary, and that there will be some sort of change in the next
legislative session. The Public Safety retirement system is down
70% in its revenues from where it needs to be for next year.
So if you have ideas and want
to voice your opinion let your FOP rep hear from you. I will be
sitting in as the FOP representative on the board that is going to come
up with the recommendations. You can contact me by email utfoppres@msn.com or by phone 801-580-0699. We
are going to try and make this as painless as possible for police officers,
but all other government employees will be trying to do the same thing
for there organizations.
Chad A. Soffe
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Version: 1.4 (Thursday 02nd of July 2009)
