Today is the last day I will be the acting president of the United States Park Ranger Lodge of the FOP. I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of those that have helped the United States Park Ranger Lodge of the FOP become what it is in 2011. In 2012 [...]
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service will be transitioning over to the 1801 job series from the 025 job series. The transistion will take place by January of 2012. The memo can be viewed at http://rangerfop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/049930-signed.pdf
The lodge is passing along a project that is currently in the works by Sgt. Thomas Marchese of the Soledad Police Department in California. Sgt. Marchese is producing a feature documentary on the rapidly growing line-of-duty death rate among US law enforcement. The victims of these murders are lucky to get so much as a headline before [...]
A real education in the development of law enforcement within the National Park Service. The youtube video was probably in the 1980′s. Reminisce and enjoy, we’ve come a long way. I think. Law Enforcement in Yosemite
The United States Park Ranger Lodge is seeking new leaders to guide the lodge into 2012. Board member postions have opened up and we are looking for energetic goal oriented members who have the time to commit to important issues facing today’s national park service law enforcement rangers. If you are a current member of the [...]
The lodge has setup the lodge podcast and video library pages for addition to the member’s area. Plug-ins will be utilized to stream video and pod-casts. Members will have the ability to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes. The video library will have law enforcement related videos for training or officer safety purposes. The video [...]
The Federal Law Enforcement Officer Association forward news regarding former US Attorney Rep. Patrick Meehan (PA-7th) who weighed in on HR 3029, a hiring freeze via attrition bill that has moved through the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Rep. Meehan got support from Chairman Darrell Issa (CA-49th), Rep Stephen Lynch (MA-9th) and Rep. [...]
The United States Park Ranger Lodge now has a new look on the world wide web. In the coming days and weeks our new site design will come alive with new content and capabilities that will better serve our new and existing members. We hope our members will like the new clean professional look, and that your [...]
We would like our members to contact their local representatives regarding HR 2886. This resolution if passed would prohibit federal law enforcement officers from being placed on unpaid furlough during a government shutdown. We are racing against the current continuing resolution deadline of November 18th and the super committee’s deadline of November 23rd.
The lodge has prepared and will send out a response to the office of Rep. John Duncan Jr. (TN) for his comments regarding federal law enforcement. “Almost no federal law enforcement today is physical in nature. Early retirement in most federal law enforcement can no longer be justified. Working as a waiter or waitress is [...]