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At the National Peace Officer's Memorial Service on May 15, 2013, President Barack Obama paid tribute to fallen law enforcement officers, closing: The 143 fallen officers we honor today put themselves on the front lines of that fight, to preserve that quality of community, and to protect the roots of our greatness.
The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.
The National Law Enforcement Museum is located at 444 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial is located south of the National Building Museum (background) at Judiciary Square. While the memorial sits on federal land, the monument was constructed and is maintained with private funds, not taxpayer dollars.
Dozens gathered at the law enforcement memorial in front of Wichita’s City Hall on Wednesday to honor fallen officers in the Sedgwick County area. Between 1871 and 2022, 33 officers from the ...
The Greater Milwaukee Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony paid tribute to five officers who passed from as long as 90 years ago to just 15 months ago. These 5 fallen officers who served Milwaukee ...
In Mishawaka, the families of fallen officers sat before the Fallen Officers Monument outside the Mishawaka Police Department on May 15 honoring the lives of four officers who were killed in the ...
The " thin blue line " is a term that typically refers to the concept of the police as the line between law-and-order and chaos in society. [1] The "blue" in "thin blue line" refers to the blue color of the uniforms of many police departments. The phrase originated as an allusion to The Thin Red Line incident during the Crimean War in 1854 ...
In the first Law Enforcement Memorial Service held in Holmes County since 2019, the former chief of the Westerville Police Department lauded officers and their families while at the same time ...