PRINTER'S NO. 742
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
84
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, COSTA, MARTIN, LANGERHOLC, BREWSTER,
GORDNER, EICHELBERGER, GREENLEAF, SCAVELLO, FONTANA,
DINNIMAN, YAW, SABATINA, ARGALL, BROWNE, VOGEL, FOLMER,
TARTAGLIONE, RESCHENTHALER, KILLION, YUDICHAK, BROOKS,
MENSCH, SCHWANK, AUMENT, VULAKOVICH, HUTCHINSON, SCARNATI,
WHITE, BARTOLOTTA AND WARD, APRIL 24, 2017
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, APRIL 24, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the week of May 14 through 20, 2017, as "National
Police Week" and designating May 8, 2017, as "Police
Officers' Memorial Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Since the beginning of law enforcement within this
Commonwealth, hundreds of police officers have made the ultimate
sacrifice while in the line of duty, including Police Officer
Scott Leslie Bashioum, Canonsburg Borough Police Department and
Trooper Landon E. Weaver, Pennsylvania State Police, who died in
2016; and
WHEREAS, Patrolman Edward A. Wehe, III, Delaware County
Courthouse and Park Police Department, died on November 5, 2013
of a heart attack shortly after removing protestors from
Delaware County Prison who did not have the proper permits; and
WHEREAS, Police Officer Walter J. DeWitt, III, Philadelphia
Police Department, died on June 5, 2015, during surgery from on-
the-job health complications; and
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