Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony next week

May 7, 2015

by Michael Meier Public Information Officer Boundary County The Boundary County Chaplain Corps is honored to announce it is holding a Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Ceremony to celebrate and honor the lives the those Idaho Law Enforcement Officers who have been killed in the line of duty. Since records starting being maintained in 1791, over 20,000 police officers have been killed in the line of duty in the United States. An officer is killed at a rate of one every 60 hours. In the State of Idaho, 61 Law Enforcement Officers have been killed in the line of duty, including the most recent on May 5, 2015, when Sergeant Gregory Moore of the Coeur d’Alene Police Department was shot and killed as he was investigating a suspicious subject who was thought to have been burglarizing vehicles. Moore, a sixteen-year and highly-decorated law enforcement veteran, leaves behind his wife LIndy and two children. Boundary County’s Memorial ceremony for fallen officers will be held on Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the flag pole just east of the Boundary County Public Library. Officials from several North Idaho Law Enforcement agencies will read the names of the 61 Idaho officers who gave their lives protecting the community and defending the freedom and safety of Idahoans. The public is encouraged to attend and show their support for our police who put their lives on the line daily for each of us.