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The Fraternal Order of Police Owensboro Lodge 16 is a multiagency fraternal organization made up of professionals from city county state and federallaw enforcement agencies in Owensboro Daviess CountyMcLean County Hancock County Ohio CountyHenderson County Butler County. Badges of Many Purpose of One . We the officers of the various law enforcement agencies within the communities under our jurisdiction are of the opinion that it is to the best interests of the members of our profession do hereby unite under the name of Owensboro Lodge No. 16 Fraternal Order of Police at Owensboro Kentucky this 27th day of February 1956 and do hereby associate ourselves together with other subordinate lodges throughout the nation for the following purposes To support and defend the Constitution of the United States to inculcate loyalty and allegiance to the United States of America to promote and foster the enforcement of law and order to improve the individual proficiency of our members in the performance of their duties to encourage social charitable and educational activities among policemen to advocate and strive for uniform application of the Civil Service Merit System for appointment and promotion to create a tradition of esprit de corps insuring fidelity to duty under all conditions and circumstances to cultivate a spirit of fraternalism and mutual helpfulness among our members and the people we serve to increase the efficiency of the police profession and thus more firmly to establish the confidence of the public in the service dedicated to the protection of life and property.