MORGANTOWN – The group of police officers are asking a Monongalia Circuit Judge to stop the City of Morgantown from adopting an ordinance creating a Civilian Police Review and Advisory Board. The petition was filed May 19 by the Monongalia-Preston Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 87 on behalf of its members. The filing took place just hours after Morgantown City Council passed the ordinance that would create the board. The FOP says the new board is illegal and unnecessary because the city already has a Civil Service Commission. Toriseva “Civil service laws create policing standards that result in enhanced public safety statewide,” Teresa Toriseva, one of the attorneys representing the officers, told