THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE RESOLUTION

INTRODUCED BY RAFFERTY, STACK, PILEGGI, SCARNATI, LOGAN, WARD, BAKER, DINNIMAN, TARTAGLIONE, BOSCOLA, KITCHEN, TOMLINSON, FONTANA, PICCOLA, EARLL, VOGEL, FARNESE, KASUNIC, MENSCH, SMUCKER, FOLMER, M. WHITE, ORIE, O'PAKE, MELLOW, GORDNER, FERLO, PIPPY, LEACH, GREENLEAF, COSTA, ERICKSON, ALLOWAY, WAUGH, BRUBAKER AND MUSTO, APRIL 21, 2010

INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, APRIL 21, 2010  

A RESOLUTION

Recognizing the week of May 9 through 15, 2010, as "National

Police Week" and May 3, 2010, as "Police Officers' Memorial

Day" in Pennsylvania.

WHEREAS, Approximately 717 police officers have made the

ultimate sacrifice since the beginning of law enforcement within

this Commonwealth by being killed in the line of duty, including

the following officers who died in 2009: Detective Chris Jones,

Middletown Township Police Department; Officer John Pawlowski,

Philadelphia Police Department; Officer Eric Guy Kelly,

Pittsburgh Police Department; Officer Stephen James Mayhle,

Pittsburgh Police Department; Officer Paul John Rizzo Domenic

Sciullo II, Pittsburgh Police Department; Trooper Joshua D.

Miller, Pennsylvania State Police; and Officer Michael Crawshaw,

Penn Hills Police Department; and

WHEREAS, Across the United States the week of May 9 through

15, 2010, 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 gave their lives in the line of duty in this

Commonwealth; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the week of May 9 through

15, 2010, as "National Police Week" and May 3, 2010, as "Police

Officers' Memorial Day" in Pennsylvania.