The Postal Police Officers Association has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over his new policy of limiting probes of mail theft to those that take place only on post office property, The Hill reported on Tuesday.
The union alleged that DeJoy’s declaration of the new policy last month puts postal police officers “in increased danger and increases the likelihood of criminal activity against Postal Service employees and the U.S. mail.”
The union said in the lawsuit that “The Postal Service’s sudden change is unwarranted, impermissible, and contrary to the language of the statute and also to collective bargaining promises it has made to the officers’ union.”
The Postal Police have operated since 1971 as the uniformed division of the Postal Inspection Service, with the duty of protecting U.S. mail, according to Politico.
The union pointed out the sharp break with a decades-long practice that the new policy entails, saying "Postal Police Officers have arrested countless individuals for all manner of crimes away from postal real estate, either by themselves or in concert with other agents. Those officers were often tasked with conducting searches and seizures of arrested individuals, with the evidence obtained used to help secure criminal convictions and imprisonment for some of those arrested."
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