THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, STACK, SCARNATI, PILEGGI, BREWSTER, BAKER, ALLOWAY, WARD, KASUNIC, D. WHITE, BOSCOLA, MENSCH, BROWNE, GREENLEAF, SCHWANK, KITCHEN, COSTA, VOGEL, EARLL, FONTANA, TARTAGLIONE, ARGALL, YAW, SOLOBAY, ORIE, GORDNER, PIPPY, TOMLINSON, ERICKSON, FARNESE AND WAUGH, MAY 1, 2012

INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, MAY 1, 2012  

A RESOLUTION

Recognizing the week of May 13 through 19, 2012, as "National

Police Week" and May 7, 2012, as "Police Officers' Memorial

Day" in Pennsylvania.

WHEREAS, Since the beginning of law enforcement within this

Commonwealth, approximately 754 police officers have made the

ultimate sacrifice while in the line of duty, including the

following officers who died in 2011: Police Officer John David

Dryer, East Washington Borough Police Department; Patrolmen

Derek Kotecki, Lower Burrell Police Department; Police Officer

Robert Alan Lasso, Freemansburg Borough Police Department; and

Deputy Sheriff Kyle David Pagerly, Berks County Sheriff's

Department; and

WHEREAS, Across the United States the week of May 13 through

19, 2012, will be recognized as "National Police Week"; and

WHEREAS, The first National Police Officers' Memorial Day was

held on May 15, 1982, following a proclamation signed by

President John F. Kennedy on October 1, 1962, and has continued

to be observed annually in memory of those police officers who

made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the Senate honor the memory of the hundreds of

police officers who have given their lives in the line of duty

in this Commonwealth; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the week of May 13

through 19, 2012, as "National Police Week" and May 7, 2012, as

"Police Officers' Memorial Day" in Pennsylvania.