Police Remembrance Day marks deaths of 140 Queensland cops

Since 2004 Saskatchewan Police and Peace Officers have been recognizing this event with a parade and ceremony in Regina.

Police Commissioner Ian Stewart joined Acting Premier Curtis Pitt, Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller and hundreds of police officers and their families at Brisbane’s St John’s Cathedral on Tuesday to remember the 140 Queensland officers who have lost their lives while serving.

Police horses, bagpipes and officers have taken to the streets of Darwin to remember their comrades who have fallen in the line of duty.

DEDICATION to the community was honoured when police officers marked National Police Remembrance Day in Katherine on Monday. It has also been promoted and embraced as the symbol of police remembrance in New Zealand.

This is the first time that police killed on duty have been officially recognised at the national service.

“That’s what we should acknowledge; their commitment, their achievements, what they have done for New Zealand”.

The service will also mark 100 years since the deaths of eight officers who died on active service during World War I.

“Fortunately, despite the many dangers our police face daily on our behalf, no officers have died on duty in the past year”, she said.

Lisa Mead, whose husband Sergeant Vaughan Mead passed away a year ago from cancer, said the service was a good time to remember loved ones.

“He’d been in the force for 36 years and he just loved his job and being in the police, so we’re here to remember him and we miss him dreadfully”, she said.