What To Do If You Cannot Come JIM DONAHUESpecial Topics Contributor for Officer.com, originally posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 I’ve penned a few articles urging the real cops among us to be part of Police Week in D.C. each May. I continue to cling to that belief. Yes, it’s a time of honor, respect,
At first, it seemed an unlikely choice for a guest speaker at a law enforcement memorial service: a veteran TV newsman who has built his career covering the police … and not always in a positive light. But at Monday’s 30th Annual Memorial Service for Washington-area Law Enforcement Officers, Pat Collins of NBC 4 (WRC-TV)
For the past two years, Deputy Sheriff Larry Canfield of the Sacramento County, CA, Sheriff’s Office was the one who organized motorcycle cops from his region to come to Washington, DC, to honor their fallen colleagues during National Police Week. This year, sadly, it is Larry Canfield’s fellow motor officers who have come to DC
For 14 children of law enforcement officers who made the ultimate sacrifice last year, Mother’s Day 2009 is, sadly, taking place without mom. Their mothers were killed in the line of duty in 2008 serving and protecting the families of America. Of the 13 female officers who died last year – a near-record total –
Kevin Whalen is a federal law enforcement officer from Northern Viriginia. A member of the Police Unity Tour, he and a group of fellow cyclists are going above and beyond this year. To help honor fallen federal agents, they are cycling an additional 1,000 miles from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, GA,
The official start of National Police Week may be five days away, but you wouldn’t know it from the impressive collection of bagpipers, Honor Guard units, horse mounted officers, clergy, news crews and supporters gathered outside St. Patrick Catholic Church in Northwest DC on Tuesday just before noon. They were there for the 15th Annual
In his role as FBI Agent Martin Fitzgerald on the CBS TV show “Without a Trace,” Eric Close gets into some difficult situations. In the nation’s capital on Monday, Close reminded a group of 8th-grade students who the “real heroes of law enforcement” are: men and women, such as their own School Resource Officer, Paul
Thomas Moad was the Assistant City Marshal for the El Paso (TX) Police Department in 1883. On a hot July afternoon that year, he was called to quell a disturbance at a local brothel. Arriving on the scene, he encountered an unruly patron and a struggle ensued. Marshal Moad was shot and killed, becoming the
Watch video of the special engraving ceremony of four Philadelphia officers, held at 1 p.m., on April 29, 2009. The Philadelphia Police Department and friends and family of Sergeant Stephen Liczbinski, Sergeant Patrick McDonald, Sergeant Timothy Simpson and Officer Isabel Nazario attended the moving ceremony.
The names of four Philadelphia Police officers killed in the line of duty in 2008 were engraved Wednesday on the marble walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC. Sergeants Stephen Liczbinski and Patrick McDonald were shot and killed by armed criminals, and Sergeant Timothy Simpson and Officer Isabel Nazario died in