AROUND 2,000 people, including every chief constable in the United Kingdom, are expected to attend the tenth National Police Memorial Day in Cardiff next month.<\/p>\n
The event, which honours police officers who have given their lives in the line of duty, will take place on Sunday 29 September in St David\u2019s Hall, Cardiff. Sgt Joe Holness, who founded National Police Memorial Day in 2004, (pictured) said the service loses between 10 and 15 officers every year, many in road traffic collisions and also in attacks during call-outs.<\/p>\n
PCs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone, the Greater Manchester Police officers shot after being lured to a fake burglary, will be among those remembered.<\/p>\n
Sgt Holness said that their deaths were \u201ca clear indication of the dangers we face in modern policing\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat won\u2019t go away,\u201d he added. \u201cUnfortunately a year never goes by when we don\u2019t have officers stabbed, shot, kicked, punched. It goes with the job and is something police officers have to deal with day in, day out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Holness said National Police Memorial Day ensured that the legacy of fallen colleagues is forever treasured.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I think it brings is some comfort to the families to know that the sacrifice of their loved ones is never going to be forgotten. At least one day a year, the country will stop and remember their loved ones. That must never be overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s National Police Memorial Day service took place at York Minster, with a congregation of more than 2,000 people. Officers of all ranks were joined by families, politicians and members of the public to pay their respects.<\/p>\n
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, gave the address and described those officers who had given their lives as \u201cthe bravest of the brave\u201d.<\/p>\n
To mark the first decade of National Police Memorial Day, a silver tenth anniversary commemorative tie pin has gone on sale.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a milestone for us,\u201d said Mr Holness. \u201cWe are still in ascendancy and are going from strength to strength.\u201d<\/p>\n
The National Police Memorial Day is open to everyone to attend, but you must register in advance to receive your invitation to the event. To register your interest, please visitwww.nationalpolicememorialday.org<\/a>\u00a0or email nationalpolicememorialday@polfed.org<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AROUND 2,000 people, including every chief constable in the United Kingdom, are expected to attend the tenth National Police Memorial Day in Cardiff next month. The event, which honours police\u2026 read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}