Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA)

Collective bargaining - collective bargaining activities include ongoing contract negotiations and enforcement of labor contracts for approximately 6,000 active members of 370 law enforcement and civilian municipal employee bargaining units. Legislative successes have included securing passage of new laws that permit off-duty and former law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons on or near school grounds, creating penalties for committing and/or threatening an officer with battery, expanding the lawful use of administrative subpoenas to investigate internet crimes against children, and introducing legislation to allow certain survivors of law enforcement officers that are killed in the line of duty to maintain their health insurance benefits.

Legislative - wppa employs lobbyists to advocate for law enforcement officers and the law enforcement community at large on a wide variety of criminal justice, labor and Professional policy matters before the state legislature. Along with passing the law enforcement officers bill of rights, which established "just cause" as the standard of review for disciplinary actions against officers by employers, some of our more recent accomplishments include new laws that require employers to pay the legal fees of officers who are exonerated in criminal proceedings arising from on-duty conduct, establish tougher penalties for individuals that injure officers while trying to escape, and require independent and transparent investigations into officer involved deaths by outside agencies.

Extended legal protection plan - the Association's in-house attorneys represent members in a wide variety of areas that are connected to their employment and the collective bargaining agreements that govern that vital service. Association attorneys also represent members in critical incidents, such as when officers are involved in shootings, squad accidents, or in-custody deaths.

Other programs - other programs consist of costs incurred for the annual convention, Wisconsin Police journal, and the Wisconsin law enforcement museum of valor.