Rep. Malliotakis Wants NPS To Buy Proper Communications Gear for USPP Officers
USPPFOP NYFO Chief Steward Jonathan Chu provided evidence that convinced Representative Malliotakis to write the following letter demanding proper communications equipment for USPPFOP Members. The USPPFOP thanks Chief Steward Chu for his service to the membership. Chief Steward chu is being promoted to sergeant and can no longer serve as…Read More
Testimony Submitted to DOI Law Enforcement Task Force
On Tuesday, August 2, 2022, the USPPFOP submitted testimony to the United States Department of the Interior Law Enforcement Task Force. The document that was submitted can be viewed below. Click on any page image of the document to view the PDF file. While this testimony was submitted as a…Read More
Read PEER’s Testimony to the DOI Law Enforcement Task Force it Confirms the USPP is: Dangerously Understaffed – Poorly Equipped – Badly Led by the NPS
The testimony of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to the DOI Law Enforcement Task Force plainly states that there are serious problems with the Department’s Law Enforcement Programs. A snippet: “Thus, between its cadre of national park rangers and USPP, NPS has a substantial law enforcement force that…Read More
Weekend Calls Again Swamp Severely Understaffed USPP – Two Lts Step Up to Fill Gap
Pretty much every USPP shift is short of minimum staffing. Saturday evening around 8:00 p.m. (July 17, 2022) in the United States Park Police East District in Washington, DC, there was a reported stabbing on the Suitland Parkway. Evidently, someone stabbed someone else in a vehicle traveling on the parkway.…Read More
See the Evidence of the National Park Service’s Decades-Long Neglect of USPP Operations
The following image is a link to a Timeline containing evidence of the National Park Service’s (NPS’s) reckless neglect of the United States Park Police’s (USPP) operational readiness: A quick review the Timeline will reveal that understaffing and under-equipping the USPP is nothing new. They have been persistent problems for…Read More
Chief’s Shrinking Cruiser Fleet Plan- Reduces Mobility of Severely Understaffed USPP – Endangers Safe OPS – Appears Retaliatory
LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN TO ALL USPPFOP MEMBERS:
USPP Chief Glosses Over Severe Understaffing – Assures Rep. Norton USPP is “prepared” for “emergencies”
On March 2, 2022, Rep. Norton wrote the U. S. Park Police (USPP) requesting they expand the Force’s Home-to-Work (HTWVP) vehicle program. Rep. Norton did this because she is aware that: Currently the USPP has fewer Officers than it had in 1975. That this dangerously low staffing severely limits the…Read More
A Severe Storm, Extreme USPP Understaffing, and No NPS Support Recklessly Endangered the Public
On July 7, 2022, the following letter was sent to Acting Chief Stock detailing the hazardous conditions and insisting that immediate action be taken to fix the hazardous conditions that routinely and recklessly place the public and officers in harm’s way:
DOI Secretary Haaland’s Support Requested for USPP Mission and Officers
On June 27, 2022, we sent the following letter to DOI Secretary Deb Haaland asking her to support fixing the United States Park Police’s operational readiness issues that are endangering NPS visitors and officers: