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Posted by: HOLLYROCK50

I just wanted to get an idea of who was heading to police week in DC this year? Any inside info of beer tents and other police related activities would be great too. By activities I mean party spots down there. Hollyrock will be there representing!

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Posted by: lofu

Hope you have fun. Wish I was going but the logistics didn't work out. Don't lose sight of the real reason you are going (I hope) to honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Represent the rest of us well.

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Posted by: cmagryan

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Originally Posted by lofu Hope you have fun. Wish I was going but the logistics didn't work out. Don't lose sight of the real reason you are going (I hope) to honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Represent the rest of us well.

- Rest assured, H-Rock and every officer I know flying, (and biking), to DC are doing it with nothing less than honor and respect in their hearts.

- Enjoy and be safe, all.

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Posted by: adroitcuffs

I'll be there!

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Posted by: Officer Dunngeon

Ah, Police Week... such fond memories I have.

Just head down to Judicial Square, that's where all the action is.

There was some bar a lot of people went to as well... Kelly's, I think it was called? I don't quite remember.

Have a great time, tell everyone I said "hello," and BEWARE OF THE ASS CLOWN!!!*

*Some members here will know what that means.

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Posted by: BSP268

when is it this year!

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Posted by: kttref

Next week

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Posted by: DoD102

WOW that came up on me quicker that most years!!!

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Posted by: kwflatbed

National Police Week is fast approaching, and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) is excited to welcome the law enforcement community and their friends and family to Washington, DC for this special time of remembrance and fellowship.

The NLEOMF has created a new and exciting tool that will not only allow you to keep up-to-date on all the activities but also let you share your thoughts and reflections with our readers about National Police Week.

Join us online at www.nleomf.blogspot.com to get the latest updates on National Police Week and the events that are most important to you. Here you will find stories, quotes, photos, an events listing, links and much more.

If you will not be able to be here in person, this new blog is an easy and effective way to stay connected.

And if you will be joining us in Washington, DC and will have Internet access, you can stay up-to-date and share your comments at www.nleomf.blogspot.com.

I encourage you to go there now and bookmark the page so that you can easily return to it over the next several days to share in the National Police Week activities.


Sincerely,
Craig W. Floyd

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Posted by: Motor23

You want to go to Kelly's. We are also cataching the sox game on Wed in Bal.

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Posted by: Delta784

I went one year, which was the year (1992 maybe? I forget) the NYPD people turned a hotel escalator into a slip-n-slide using beer instead of water, and were going down bare-ass naked.

That was enough memories for a lifetime for me.

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Posted by: Nighttrain

Be carefull Ed. The year I went the beer tent got sandwiched between an off ramp and a crack house. I can only imagine where it will be this year. Have fun and stay safe.

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Posted by: bpd145

To any officer who has yet to go to Police Week: Go. If you only do it once in your career, you will be amazed.

The 'other activities' aside, I cannot begin to explain the emmotions one feels when you see the hundreds of survivor families and their children exiting the buses, escorted by countless police motorcycles from all over the country, at the Candlelight Vigil. Or giving a patch, a shirt, or even a badge to a kid whose father or mother was killed in the line of duty. Or the sight of a officer crying at the The Memorial (note the caps) as he rubs an etching of his partners name.

Far too often we are criticized by the public for the money we make (or don't make for that matter), our details, how we treat the public, etc. I wish the general public could see the results of the dangers of our jobs; it could, just maybe, make them think twice.

I'll turn off the rant-mode. I'll be there tomorrow. Just look for the shirts with the Mass and Florida patches on it. We'll talk then.

TM

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Posted by: badgebunny

I really wanted to go, but unfortunately not able to...hopefully next year I will get there...

To all that are going stay safe...

When I put the uniform on my thoughts are always the same...the families of the officers that did not make it home (as well as the officers) and to always let the ones I love know that I love them!

As you all know it takes alot to wear the uniform and we do it with PRIDE...

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Fallen Officers Honored at Vigil in D.C.







Courtesy of WJLA-TV

The names of 358 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty were formally dedicated on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.


National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund



Watch WJLA-TV Video


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The names of 358 law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty -- 181 of them during 2007 -- were formally dedicated on the walls of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, Tuesday evening during a candlelight vigil for fallen officers led by U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
In addition to the 181 officers who were killed in 2007, 177 officers who died in previous years but whose deaths had been lost to history were added to the Memorial this year. The monument now contains the names of 18,274 law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty throughout U.S. history from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and federal law enforcement and military police agencies.
"As individuals, the 358 men and women we honor tonight were unique in so many ways, but as a group, they shared a common bond of service, a common heritage of bravery and selflessness," said Craig W. Floyd, Chairman and CEO of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, which operates the Memorial and helps to organize National Police Week each May. "Now, these officers share a common place of honor among some 18,000 others who went before them - dedicated to family and community, unafraid of the risks inherent in their chosen profession, eager in spirit, righteous in cause and strong to the very end," he said.
Attorney General Mukasey delivered the keynote address at the 20th Annual Candlelight Vigil and led the lighting of candles and reading of the names of all 358 fallen officers.
2007 was one of the deadliest years for U.S. law enforcement in nearly two decades. The number of officers killed in the line of duty last year increased nearly 20 percent from 2006, when there were 151 officer deaths. Outside of 2001, when 72 officers died on 9/11, the last year in which the number of officer fatalities was higher was 1989, when there were 196 deaths.
The 2007 increase was driven, in part, by a 26 percent rise in the number of officers shot and killed. Of the 68 officers shot to death last year, 13 died in six separate incidents in which two or more officers were gunned down, including the deaths of three Odessa (TX) Police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in September.
A record 83 officers died in traffic-related incidents last year, including 60 in automobile accidents, nine in motorcycle accidents and 14 who were stuck and killed by other vehicles while outside their police vehicles.
Forty states, the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories experienced officer fatalities during 2007. Texas had the most officer deaths, with 22, followed by Florida (16), California (10), Louisiana (9) and North Carolina (. Seventeen federal law enforcement officers died in the line of duty last year, including seven U.S. Customs and Border Protection members and six special agents with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
Dedicated in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial commemorates the service and sacrifice of America's law enforcement officers. Each May 13, as part of National Police Week, the newly engraved names of officers killed in the line of duty are read aloud and formally dedicated on the National Memorial during the Candlelight Vigil. An estimated 20,000 people attend the ceremony each year, including surviving family members, friends, law enforcement colleagues and others.
For more information, including the names of officers added this year to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, visit nleomf.org.


Information From: AP Wire Service

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Posted by: dave7336

Please remember to make sure your departments flags are flown at half staff today as it is Federal Law on Peace Officer Memorial Day. I am sure that you will have to remind your town officials of this also...

Also RIP to all officers who have their names engraved on the wall

Public Law 87-726, signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, was amended as above by the 103rd Congress as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. President Bill Clinton signed Public Law 103-322 which directs that the flag of the United States on all Government buildings be displayed at half-staff on May 15, National Peace Officers' Memorial Day.

http://www.nationalcops.org/law.htm

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Posted by: kwflatbed

The reality of losing a law enforcement officer



CAMDENTON, Mo., — Reality shows are certainly proving to be the latest rage in America. People are moving in together, competing to lose the most weight, tripping the light fantastic, singing their way onto CD's, and vying for the hand of beautiful people. Americans are certainly hooked on reality television.
We settle back each night to watch these shows and during the year also watch many law enforcement shows that depict the line-of-duty death of an officer. There may be a short clip of the officer's funeral in the show, and then life in the precinct station returns to normal. In most cases, the officer is written from the script and never mentioned again.
While the media will be able to catch their snippets of footage of grieving family members at the May 13 Candlelight Vigil at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and the May 15 National Peace Officers' Memorial Service on the West Front of the United States Capitol, the "real life" scenarios will play out at the National Police Survivors' Conference. Any media representative who chooses to come to the National Police Survivors' Conference on either May 14 or May 16 will learn that each and every day the memory of the fallen officer is very much a part of their surviving family and the affected co-workers. In reality, they can never be written out of the script. At the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center Hotel, 5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, VA, 1,400 family members of America's fallen law enforcement officers will be attending the National Police Survivors' Conference. They will share their stories of loss and coping with other law enforcement survivors. For many of these families, this is where the healing process will begin.
Concerns of Police Survivors begins its 25th year of service to America's fallen law enforcement survivors on May 14. The organization now represents over 15,000 surviving families across the United States and has an international affiliate in the United Kingdom.
Knowing that survivors of 2007 will be exceptionally emotional from seeing and/or hearing the name of their loved ones at the May 13 and May 15 services, C.O.P.S. will offer media contacts access to more "seasoned" surviving families to relay the "real life" scenarios of the day-to-day struggles of law enforcement survivors.

For more information on C.O.P.S. or the National Police Survivors' Conference, visit www.nationalcops.org or call 573-346-4911.

Source: Concerns of Police Survivors

Contact
Suzie Sawyer of Concerns of Police Survivors, +1-573-346-4911, +1-573-216-4792 (cell)

Web Site: http://www.nationalcops.com/
http://www.nationalcops.org/


FOP hosts Capitol Hill service

U.S. Newswire

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Fraternal Order of Police and its Auxiliary will gather on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol to honor one hundred and ninety-two (192) law enforcement officers who gave their lives in the line of duty. The National Peace Officers' Memorial Service is the capstone event of National Police Week, which began this year on 11 May.
David Hiller, National Vice President of the Fraternal Order of Police, will host the event, which will feature a keynote address by the U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. Country recording artist Jo Dee Messina will perform a musical tribute in honor of the fallen officers and their surviving family members, colleagues and friends who will be in attendance.
"Every year, the FOP and its extended law enforcement family come together on this day to remember, to reflect, and to honor our fallen heroes," Hiller said. "In sharing our grief, we find the strength to renew our commitment to serve and protect our families, our communities, and our nation."
During National Police Week, thousands of law enforcement officers in every region of the nation gathered at memorial services to honor their fallen colleagues. More than 25,000 officers, as well as the surviving family members and friends of slain officers, have traveled to the nation's capital to attend the 27th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service, which is the nation's largest and most prominent memorial service held on behalf of fallen law enforcement officers.
In October 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation designating May 15th as National Peace Officers' Memorial Day. Since the signing of this proclamation, this date has been the official day of recognition for law enforcement officers who have lost their lives in the performance of their duty.
This is the 27th year that the Fraternal Order of Police and its Auxiliary have held the National Peace Officers' Memorial Service.

Wire Service

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