The Order's constitution stated that 'Race, Creed or Color shall be no bar'. In 1918, it was decided that the Order should become a national organization. Armstrong that the FOP would 'bring our grievances before the Mayor or Council and have many things adjusted that we are unable to present in any other way.we could get many things through our legislature that our Council will not, or cannot give us.' The FOP official history states that the founders decided to not use the term 'union' because of 'the anti-union sentiment of the time,' but nevertheless acted as a union, telling Pittsburgh mayor Joseph G. They and 21 other members of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police met on May 14, 1915, establishing the first local of the Fraternal Order of Police, Fort Pitt Lodge #1. The Fraternal Order of Police was founded in 1915 by two Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, patrol officers, Martin Toole and Delbert Nagle.