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We are a voluntary organization comprised of police officers and civilian employees of the police de Three years ago we saw a need to create a benevolent fund.

The Bedford Municipal Police Association's principle concerns focus on law enforcement issues and the effect of those issues on our community. BMPA provides representation and a voice for police employees on issues that are of concern to us. We are dedicated to service to our community and the promotion of fairness and effectiveness in law enforcement. We have since created Bedford Municipal Police Association Charities which is a 501 (c) 3 organization. The goal of BMPA Charities is to help provide assistance to first responders and their families in a time of need.

11/11/2026

🇺🇸 15.7 million Americans have served in our armed forces, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Today is for every one of them.

They come from every generation. Nearly a third served during the Vietnam era. Almost as many served after September 11, 2001. And 1.7 million of them are women.

Veterans Day falls on November 11 every year, the anniversary of the 1918 armistice that ended the fighting in World War I. Unlike Memorial Day, it is mainly a day to thank the veterans who are still with us.

Members of this association who served know a sincere thank you goes a long way.

11/10/2026

🎂 Happy 251st birthday to the United States Marine Corps!

On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress resolved to raise two battalions of Marines. Philadelphia's Tun Tavern, where some of the first recruits signed on, is still remembered as the Corps' traditional birthplace.

Every November 10 since 1921, Marines everywhere have heard the same words read aloud: Commandant John A. Lejeune's birthday message, Marine Corps Order No. 47.

Today about 173,000 active-duty Marines carry that tradition forward.

Several members of this association earned the title Marine before they joined our ranks. Semper Fi.

10/31/2026

Before there were pumpkins, there were turnips. 🎃

In Ireland and Scotland, people carved scary faces into turnips and set them in windows to frighten off a wandering spirit called Stingy Jack. The Irish came to call him Jack of the Lantern, then simply Jack O'Lantern. When immigrants brought the tradition to America, they found pumpkins far easier to carve, and the rest is porch history.

The members of this association hope your night is full of candy.

10/28/2026

📬 Our Fundraising Letter Is Here, Just in Time for National First Responders Day!

October 28 is National First Responders Day, recognized by the U.S. Senate since 2017. It's a day to thank everyone who runs toward the call, paid or volunteer, around the clock, including the members of this association.

This week our official fundraising letters are landing in mailboxes across our community, and yours may already be waiting. Every gift, big or small, means a great deal to us.

If you'd like to celebrate the day with us, there's no need to wait for the mail. Whenever you're ready, our giving page is here: https://bedfordmpa.com/donate?utm_source=facebook_helpers&utm_medium=post&utm_term=com 💙

10/17/2026

Today is National Move Over Day. Only two in three drivers believe the law requires them to do anything special when they pass a stopped police car on the roadside.

That is from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety's 2025 national survey. For tow trucks, it was 58 percent. And among drivers who did know the law applied, fewer than half knew it asks them to slow down, not just change lanes.

All 50 states have a move over law. Hawaii was the last to pass one, in 2012. The rule is simple: when you see flashing lights on the shoulder, move over a lane if you safely can. If you cannot, slow down well below the limit until you are past.

In 2025, 36 roadside responders were struck and killed by passing vehicles, according to the Emergency Responder Safety Institute. Law enforcement, fire and EMS crews, tow operators, road service and highway workers, all standing a few feet from traffic doing their jobs.

Members of this association work that shoulder. So do the tow drivers and road crews beside them.

10/07/2026

The best conversations between a community and its police do not happen on a call. They happen over coffee.

That is the entire premise of National Coffee with a Cop Day, held on the first Wednesday of October, which this year falls on October 7. It started in Hawthorne, California in 2011 and has since been held in all 50 states and in countries around the world.

No speeches. No agenda. Just a chance to ask the questions that never fit into a traffic stop or a report: what the new sign on the corner means, how to report something without calling 911, what the job is actually like.

The members of this association are neighbors first. Most of them will tell you the coffee is the easy part. The listening is what matters.

09/27/2026

In 1917, an Army captain named Robert Queisser designed a small flag for a window.

He had two sons serving overseas. The flag he patented carried a blue star for each family member in service, and families across the country began hanging them where neighbors could see. It was a quiet way of saying that someone from this house is out there.

If that person did not come home, the family sewed a gold star over the blue one.

That is where the term comes from. Not a medal. Not a designation handed down by an institution. A mother with a needle, covering a blue star, in a window on an ordinary street. In 1918 the practice was formalized when the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense asked President Wilson to approve a gold star for mothers who had lost a child in the war, and he did.

Gold Star Mother's and Family's Day is observed on the last Sunday in September, this year on the 27th.

Members of this association know Gold Star families in the communities we serve. Most of them will not say so out loud.

If you know one, they do not need a speech. They need to know their person is still remembered by name. Share this post in their honor.

09/18/2026

Last year, 231 missing Americans came home.

That is the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's fiscal year 2025 count. 165 from World War II, 58 from Korea, 8 from Vietnam. It was a record, and the first time since 2019 the agency exceeded the 200 identifications Congress asks of it.

It also barely moved the number. More than 80,000 Americans are still unaccounted for from past conflicts. Roughly 38,000 of them are assessed as recoverable. Most of the rest were lost at sea.

Those two facts sit together uncomfortably, and they should. The work is painstaking, it is slow, and it is still producing results eighty years after the fact. Somewhere last year, 231 families got a phone call they had stopped expecting.

Today is National POW/MIA Recognition Day, observed every year on the third Friday in September by presidential proclamation.

The flag says You Are Not Forgotten. The 231 is the proof.

Share this post in their honor.

09/18/2026

The law that created the United States Air Force was signed in the air.

On July 26, 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 aboard his presidential aircraft, a Douglas VC-54C nicknamed the Sacred Cow. It was the first plane ever built specifically to fly a president. The act took effect on September 18, 1947, and the Air Force became a separate branch of the armed forces.

That same day, Stuart Symington was sworn in as its first Secretary. Carl Spaatz became its first Chief of Staff. A service built entirely around flight got its founding signature at altitude, which is either a coincidence or the best one in American military history.

Seventy nine years later the Sacred Cow is preserved at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and the motto has not changed.

Several members of this association served in that uniform before they served this community.

Tag an Airman, past or present, who should see this today.

Aim High. Fly, Fight, Win.

09/11/2026

On September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard put out a call on marine radio for all available boats.

Ferries answered. So did tugboats, dinner cruise boats, fishing charters, and private craft whose owners had no obligation to be anywhere near it. Lower Manhattan had no bridges open and no subways running. The only way off the island was the water.

In under nine hours they carried an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people out. It remains the largest maritime evacuation in recorded history. Not one life was lost in the evacuation itself.

Most people do not know this happened. It is not in the footage everyone remembers. It was ordinary people with boats who heard a request and turned toward the smoke.

Twenty five years on, that is the part worth handing to whoever comes next. 2,977 people were killed that day, and thousands of others spent that morning deciding, without being asked twice, to go get somebody.

Every member of this association understands that decision. It is the same one they make on an ordinary Tuesday.

Share this post so someone who has never heard of the boat lift hears about it today.

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