Two Kentucky officers were killed in the line of duty in 2013, and their memory and sacrifice will be honored at the Department of Criminal Justice Training’s annual law enforcement memorial ceremony Wednesday.
Gov. Steve Beshear will address the families, friends and comrades of Kentucky’s fallen officers.
The ceremony will be held at the Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial, located in front of the John W. Bizzack Law Enforcement Training Complex on Eastern Kentucky University’s campus.
The ceremony also will honor seven Kentucky officers killed in the line of duty between 1908 and 2012, but whose names were not added to the national memorial until recently. One of the criteria for having a name placed on the Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial is that it be on the National Law Enforcement Memorial.
The Kentucky Law Enforcement Memorial monument stands in memory of nearly every Kentucky peace officers who has been killed in the line of duty. This year’s additions bring the total number of names on the monument to 518. That number includes Louis Myers of the Marion Police Department who died of a heart attack Aug. 29, 1973 while tracking a prison
