This year, Sunday, May 10 – Saturday, May 16, is National Police Week and May 15 is National Peace Officers Memorial Day. Suggested by President Kennedy in 1962, congress passed a resolution that same year designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week it falls in Police Week.
Each year, the service and sacrifice of officers across the country and of those who have been killed in the line of duty are honored during the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund’s annual candlelight vigil in Washington D.C. This year the vigil is scheduled on Wednesday, May 13, at 8 p.m. Locally, the Bloomington Police Department will recognize National Peace Officers Memorial Day with a Memorial Flag ceremony on Friday, May 15 at Civic Plaza at 8 a.m. The BPD will also join the Minnesota Law Enforcement Memorial Association to stand guard at the Peace Officer Memorial in St. Paul, followed by the attendance of a remembrance ceremony at 7 p.m.
Learn more about the police officers serving Bloomington at blm.mn/pd.
