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PRINTER'S NO. 794
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
88
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, COSTA, WOZNIAK, TEPLITZ, BREWSTER,
HAYWOOD, McGARRIGLE, KITCHEN, FONTANA, BAKER, YAW, GORDNER,
VOGEL, SCHWANK, GREENLEAF, WILEY, SMITH, PILEGGI, WARD,
FOLMER, DINNIMAN, MENSCH, WHITE, VULAKOVICH, BLAKE, AUMENT,
BOSCOLA AND ALLOWAY, APRIL 21, 2015
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, APRIL 21, 2015
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the week of May 10 through 16, 2015, as "National
Police Week" and May 4, 2015, 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 the following
officers who died in 2014: Corporal Bryon Keith Dickson II,
Pennsylvania State Police, Police Officer Richard Anthony
Champion, Perryopolis Borough Police Department and Trooper
David Kedra, Pennsylvania State Police; and
WHEREAS, Detective Gerard W. Traynor, with the Philadelphia
Police Department, made the ultimate sacrifice on June 21, 1987,
after helping another officer regain control of an escaping
prisoner; and
WHEREAS, Across the United States, the week of May 10 through
16, 2015, will be recognized as "National Police Week"; and
WHEREAS, The first "National Police Officers' Memorial Day"
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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 10
through 16, 2015, as "National Police Week" and May 4, 2015, as
"Police Officers' Memorial Day" in Pennsylvania.
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