January/February 2012 available now - click above

Selected Site updates:

North Carolina FOP strongly opposes Fayetteville City Councils action...for more information Click Here

Nominations are now being accepted for the North Carolina Fraternal Oder of Police - Officer of the Year award!

The North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police 2012 Officer of the Year Award nominations deadline has not yet been set so please get your nominees in soon. The award will be presented at the 2012 Spring Board Meeting being held in Fayetteville, NC. Nominations for this award are currently open. We urge each of you to encourage your membership in the suggestion of nominations of our worthy Brothers and Sisters. The Officer of the Year Award recognizes our Brothers and Sisters for their outstanding performance in and contributions to our profession. Please adhere as closely as possible to award criteria; the criterion accompanies this memorandum for your convenience. We look forward to many nominations to consider for this award. If you have any questions regarding this process please contact the Committee Chariman, Phillip Ferguson through our State Lodge Office.

For Award Qualifications details.. Click here!

President Mangum daily reports from Biennial Conference. Click here!

Blue Note January/February will be available soon.

2011 Legislative Report, updated July 19, 2011. Click here!

BlueNote May/June 2011 edition is available. Click here!

Hickory Mayor assails collective bargaining

Reid Yields To Pressure from Landrieu

2010 Candidate Endorsements. Click here!

An exchange of messages between NC FOP President Terry Mangum and Senator Kay Hagen.

A bill recently introduced in the Legislature could dramatically affect the future of law enforcement in North Carolina. Click here!

The FOP-IAFF collective bargaining bill has been offered as an amendment to H.R. 4899. Click here!

Open letter from Jennifer Shelton, widow of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Jeff Shelton. Click here!

Welcome to the refreshed NC Fraternal Order of Police website! Now you may click here or the logo above to visit our companion Facebook page!

Member Attention Requested!

A Note from National FOP President Chuck Canterbury
Reference: States and Bankruptcies

In the past few weeks and as much as a month ago, we have been hearing about a proposal to allow states to declare bankruptcy therefore avoiding fully funding pensions or other debts.

The rumors have stated that the author is everyone from Sarah Palin to Newt Gingrich and as of today�s date there has been no legislation proposed.

Please do not think that I am downplaying this action as we do understand the very serious nature of this type to legislation and even if it fails it will continue to promulgate the theory that Public Unions have been the problem.

As I stated last month, we do not believe that Public Unions have caused the problems but we do agree that bad management and poor responses by management have exacerbated the problems.

We will be monitoring the Congress and will provide you information as soon as we get it but I want you all to understand that there will be many problems to this legislation that may prove to be too big for this to pass.

The National Credit Rating would be so affected that the United States would have major problems with the world money markets and would adversely affect the worth of the US dollar.

Many of the voters are invested in Municipal Bonds and allowing bankruptcy would have a devastating affect on the MUNI Bond Market.

There will obviously be a constitutional challenge to this legislation.

All Public Unions will oppose and I am sure a coalition of Unions will emerge to fight a change like this.

Chuck Canterbury

NO QUARTER FOR UNIONS
Hickory Mayor, area officials denounce collective bargaining bill

Hickory Daily Record
HICKORY NC -- An attempt to advance a collective bargaining bill in Congress prompted a vitriolic response Tuesday from Hickory Mayor Rudy Wright.

The Senate bill, introduced Dec. 1 by Sen. Harry Reid, would mandate collective bargaining for local government. �It�s called the �Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act,� but it�s anything but cooperative,� Wright said. �It�s forced unionism, and it would make our ability to talk with employees go away.�

Wright�s comments came at the Catawba County Chamber of Commerce to a crowd of area public officials.

The proposed federal law would mainly affect police officers, firefighters and emergency response personnel. Employees and officers of sheriff�s offices would be exempt... READ MORE >>

[Editor's note: Below is an excerpt and link to President Mangum's response to the HDR article]

December 10, 2010
Hickory Daily Record

Reporter Larry Clark,

I read your article, �No quarter for unions,� and found it to be full of misinformation and untruths, in addition to being extremely one-sided. The Mayor has either not read the bill or has chosen to expound the talking points of the League of Municipalities. I would like to provide the truth as it relates to some of the Mayor�s quotes.

As President of the North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police, I feel obligated to respond to this article in support of the members of Catawba County Lodge 26, the other fifty-eight Lodges across the State, and all of North Carolina law enforcement. READ MORE >>

BARGAINING BILL BETRAYED
Reid Yields To Pressure from Landrieu and Weakens Bargaining Bill

Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, expressed profound disappointment with a decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid Harry Reid (D-NV), who introduced still another version of the �Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act.� The latest version, S. 3991, was essentially gutted, allowing Sheriffs and Sheriff�s Deputies to be exempted from the bill�s protections.

�Mary Landrieu has been working very hard for several years to undermine our efforts on this legislation,� Canterbury explained. �She may be popular with a handful of Sheriffs in her State, but she is no friend of law enforcement. The provision she insisted on would recognize the rights of some law enforcement officers, while denying these same rights to Sheriff�s Deputies. This will allow Sheriffs to perpetuate their exploitation of employees who have no rights or recourse�a culture that sees its fullest expression in Louisiana. Every at-will Deputy that loses his or her job to an unaccountable Sheriff will have Mary Landrieu to thank.�

Senator Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA) was the only Democrat in the conference whom the FOP considered unreliable on this bill. Each time the legislation seemed headed toward consideration, Senator Landrieu would introduce amendments opposed by the FOP in an effort to weaken or nullify the bill�s impact in her home State.

�We all remember the so-called �Louisiana Purchase� or $300 million dollar payoff that Senator Landrieu received in exchange for her vote in favor of the health care bill. This is more of the same,� Canterbury said. �I am disappointed with Senator Reid�s decision to move forward with a bill that does not serve the broad interest of rank-and-file officers and, for this reason, the law enforcement labor community cannot support.�

The Senate has three bills pending before it entitled the �Public Safety Employers-Employee Cooperation Act�: S. 1611, introduced by Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and the late Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA); S. 3194, introduced by Senator Reid, and S. 3991, which was introduced yesterday without the support of the Fraternal Order of Police. While all three bills would recognize the fundamental right of public safety employees to form and join unions and bargain collectively with their employers over wages, hours, and working conditions, the most recent version of the bill and the one Senator Reid has agreed to move would allow Sheriffs to deny these basic rights to their Deputies.

�I expect S. 3991 to be called up sometime this week or next,� Canterbury said. �Without the FOP�s support, I am not sure it will have enough votes to invoke cloture, so this may be a moot point in any case.�

The Fraternal Order of Police is the largest law enforcement labor organization in the United States, with more than 330,000 members.

And again with Kay Hagan

Click here! to review an exchange of messages between
Terry Mangum, President, NC Fraternal Order of Police
and Senator Kay R. Hagan (D) North Carolina.

Framed by the Action Message below and this quote from the Senator's website "Kay R. Hagan has worked for the people of North Carolina as a champion for working families, ..." these three (now four) messages should be of great interest to any NC FOP member, supporter and working family in North Carolina.

A NC Biennial Conference update from President Mangum

Brothers and Sisters,

I send you greetings from the North Carolina State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police. As you know, we held our Fall Board of Directors meeting and State Biennial Conference in Rocky Mount on September 21 st - 26th.

Rocky Mount Lodge 46 did an outstanding job and the members are to be commended for their efforts in providing the attendees with an exceptional Board Meeting and State Conference. And a very special thank you is sent to Greg Brown, Bill Davis, Ricky Parks, and Mark Rosenfield for making this such a special time for all in attendance. READ MORE>>

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The Fraternal Order Of Police is the oldest and largest law enforcement organization in the world.

Founded in 1915, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the FOP has grown to over 325,000 members with affiliate lodges in Canada and Ireland.

Over 1,000 of the 2,100 lodges operate under collective bargaining agreements.

Welcome to our NC FOP State Lodge site!

The FOP in North Carolina emerged on the scene in 1954, with the first lodge located in Asheville. Today Harold C. Enloe Lodge #1 has over 250 members and continues with the slogan, "Building on a proud tradition".

Currently there are fifty-nine local lodges totaling over 6,300 law enforcement officers from the mountains to the coast.

News Releases

NC FOP Announces Candidate Endorsements
Cary NC � The State Lodge of the N.C. Fraternal Order of Police has been closely observing the contested legislative and judicial races, the candidates, their comments and positions.
Following opportunities to hear from the individual candidates at the Biennial Conference the assembled delegates voted to endorse the following candidates:
News Release · Oct 17, 2010

Past FOP President Honored in Oklahoma
Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, offered congratulations to Past National President Richard Boyd, who has been selected as one of the original inductees for the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Hall of Fame.
News Release · Dec 2, 2009

Terrorist�s Speech Blocked - FOP�s Complaint to Parole Commission Prevents Travel to UMASS
Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, was pleased to announce that, thanks to the FOP, convicted terrorist Raymond Luc Levasseur will not be an honored guest and speaker at the University of Massachusetts today.
News Release · Nov 15, 2009

NCFOP Expresses Outrage over Release of Inmates
The North Carolina State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, has joined Governor Perdue and various victims advocacy groups expressing shock over a N.C. Supreme Court ruling that forces the early release of murderers and rapists, some of whom were originally sentenced to death.
News Release · Oct 16, 2009

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Legislative Updates

NC Legislative Alert
A bill recently introduced in the Legislature could dramatically affect the future of law enforcement in North Carolina. Senate Bill 1450, �State Retirement Age and Service Change,� would make various changes in the retirement age for State employees, including State law enforcement officers. The Bill Sponsors - - and your local legislators - - need to hear from you now!
Legislative Update · Jun 22, 2010

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