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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE RESOLUTION |
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| 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 |
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| INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, MAY 1, 2012 |
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| A RESOLUTION |
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1 | Recognizing the week of May 13 through 19, 2012, as "National |
2 | Police Week" and May 7, 2012, as "Police Officers' Memorial |
3 | Day" in Pennsylvania. |
4 | WHEREAS, Since the beginning of law enforcement within this |
5 | Commonwealth, approximately 754 police officers have made the |
6 | ultimate sacrifice while in the line of duty, including the |
7 | following officers who died in 2011: Police Officer John David |
8 | Dryer, East Washington Borough Police Department; Patrolmen |
9 | Derek Kotecki, Lower Burrell Police Department; Police Officer |
10 | Robert Alan Lasso, Freemansburg Borough Police Department; and |
11 | Deputy Sheriff Kyle David Pagerly, Berks County Sheriff's |
12 | Department; and |
13 | WHEREAS, Across the United States the week of May 13 through |
14 | 19, 2012, will be recognized as "National Police Week"; and |
15 | WHEREAS, The first National Police Officers' Memorial Day was |
16 | held on May 15, 1982, following a proclamation signed by |
17 | President John F. Kennedy on October 1, 1962, and has continued |
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1 | to be observed annually in memory of those police officers who |
2 | made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty; therefore be it |
3 | RESOLVED, That the Senate honor the memory of the hundreds of |
4 | police officers who have given their lives in the line of duty |
5 | in this Commonwealth; and be it further |
6 | RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize the week of May 13 |
7 | through 19, 2012, as "National Police Week" and May 7, 2012, as |
8 | "Police Officers' Memorial Day" in Pennsylvania. |
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