2025 Legislative Resources
- Day on the Hill Welcome Letter
- The “Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act”
- The “Law Enforcement Officers’ Equity Act”
- The “LEOSA Reform Act”
- The “Protect and Serve Act”
- The “HELPER Act”
- Lobbying Tips
- 2025 Feedback Form
FAQ About the Social Security Fairness Act
FOP Action Center
- The Action Center serves as a hub for accessing up-to-date information on our legislative priorities and provides a platform for you to easily contact your Representatives and Senators to express your support.
Policy Paper on Law Enforcement Recruitment and Retention
- Following a roundtable of FOP leaders from around the country to discuss ideas and solutions to address our profession’s recruitment and retention crisis, the FOP produced this policy paper to serve as a guide for lodges and agencies working to retain veteran officers and attract new recruits.
Frequently Asked Questions about the HELPS Retirees Act
- The “Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) Retirees Act,” was signed into law in 2006, which provides a modest tax benefit to help retired public safety officers pay for health care by allowing the use, on a pretax basis, of up to $3,000 annually from their pension funds to pay for premiums on health care and long-term care insurance. The law was recently amended to remove the “direct pay” requirement and allows retired public safety officers to claim their reduction when filing their taxes. You can read the FOP’s FAQ here.
Attacks on Law Enforcement
- REPORT: Law Enforcement Officers Shot in the Line of Duty | 2022 Year-End Summary
- REPORT: Law Enforcement Officers Shot in the Line of Duty | 2021 Year-End Summary
- REPORT: Law Enforcement Officers Shot in the Line of Duty | 2020 Year-End Summary
- REPORT: Ambushes of Police | U.S. Department of Justice
- REPORT: The Assailant Study | Federal Bureau of Investigation
- STUDY: Making It Safer | Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S. Department of Justice
- REPORT: Ambushes and Unprovoked Attacks | Federal Bureau of Investigation
REPORT: Law Enforcement Officers Shot in the Line of Duty 2022 Year-End Summary
Use of Force Standards
- National Consensus Policy and Discussion Paper on Use of Force (Revised July 2020)
- Statement of the Fraternal Order of Police and the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Use of Force Standards (March 2016)
Task Force on 21st Century Policing
- National Fraternal Order of Police Analysis: Interim Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing
- Executive Summary: Analysis of the Interim Report of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing
Policy Paper on Law Enforcement Reform
- The FOP’s Policy Paper on Law Enforcement Reform reiterates the positions taken by the FOP during the debates on police reform in 2021 and is intended to be used by our members as a guide for discussing these issues at the grassroots level.
