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Knoxville-Knox County Police Week 2008 |
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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The heads of all the law
enforcement agencies in the Knoxville area gathered Friday, May 2, 2007
outside the Civic Coliseum on the Plaza to kick-off Police Week. The Mayors of
Knoxville and Knox County read proclamations in support of law
enforcement and placed ribbons on cars from each agency.
The centerpiece of Police Week, May 11-17, was the Annual
Knoxville-Knox County Peace Officers’ Memorial Service. The men and
women who died during the previous year were memorialized in a special
ceremony. The keynote speaker was TBI Director Mark Gwyn.
Participating agencies were the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, the
Knoxville Police Department, the University of Tennessee Police
Department, the TVA Police, the FBI and the TBI. The memorial
service was presented through the support of the Fraternal Order of
Police Volunteer Lodge No. 2.
Law enforcement agencies from the Knoxville area remembered the service of peace officers who passed away from May 2007 until the
present. Families of the officers were escorted to a memorial wreath where
they placed a flower in memory of their loved
ones.
In Memory of Officers from
Knox County Sheriff's Office
Sergeant Donnie Weaver
Corrections Officer Andy Wilson
Knoxville Police Department
Captain Ed Cummings
Lieutenance Paris Dale Goin
Officer John Stephen Irwin
Sergeant William Irwin
Sergeant Terry Lynn Reynolds
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Special Agent Billy T. Frazier
Special Agent Shields Winford Smith, Sr.
Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority
Officer John. E. Childress
University of Tennessee
Officer Thomas E. Garrett, Jr.
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This was a truly collaborative effort; all law enforcement agencies from Knoxville-Knox County participated in the program.
Nationally, May 15th is
designated National Peace Officers’ Memorial Day and the week containing May
15th is National Police Week. President John F. Kennedy signed it
into law in 1962.
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