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What a law enforcement union must provide members in today's world

In order to guarantee its members the highest level of employment protection that is absolutely necessary in today's world, a law enforcement officers' union must provide total representation. This means that a complex battery of resources and a broad spectrum of specialized expertise must be readily available, at all times, to every member of the organization. In other words, the union must be armed with complete service capacity and a dedicated staff of eminently qualified professionals who will consistently deliver these services in a timely and coordinated fashion.

Unequaled experience, expertise, achievement

MAP's staff of labor relation's professionals is acknowledged as number one in experience and proven expertise in the state.  It has earned this recognition by achieving an unequaled record of success in all phases of union representation.

Experience is, obviously, an extremely valuable commodity in the law enforcement union business.  It reflects not only longevity - many years of performing highly specialized work - but also steady growth and adaptation, plus total familiarity with every phase of an increasingly complex field of knowledge.

Because of the very nature of their duties, law enforcement officers are at serious risk of becoming the subjects of several types of litigation, which do not affect persons in other professions. The immediate availability of legal representation for non-labor matters therefore is a vital facet of MAP's spectrum of service.

A top flight staff of attorneys

Expert, specialized legal representation is an essential service element for any public safety professional union in the modern era. A complex body of laws and regulations governs the relationship between workers and their employers. Many of these are established to protect the rights of the employees. Importantly, the protection afforded by law and regulation is only as effective as a union's legal talent makes it.

Professional lobbyists provide members with clout

Law enforcement officers have more of a stake in which laws are passed, and which are not, than virtually any other class of professionals. They are, for example, directly concerned with legislation that:

• Helps them do their jobs more effectively.
• Protects them from unwarranted vulnerability to legal proceedings against them.
• Grants them workers' rights, both as individual employees and as union members.

A program of information and media relations

A complete union communications program has two primary facets:

1. To keep the entire membership as informed as possible about important developments and events; and,
2. To convey to the public and to state and national lawmakers the positions and opinions of the organization on all issues which affect it and its members.