The names of 5 constables who’ve fallen within the line of responsibility shall be inducted into the Ontario Police Memorial throughout a remembrance ceremony outdoors of Queen’s Park in the present day.
The annual service, a tribute to Ontario’s law enforcement officials killed whereas in service, will see hundreds of uniformed law enforcement officials from throughout the province and past in attendance.
Led by Police Pipe Bands, the tribute will start at 11 a.m.
Toronto police officer Andrew Hong’s identify shall be carved into the memorial in the present day. Hong, who was working a police bike coaching course, was slain outdoors a Tim Hortons in September final 12 months. The gunman, in line with an SIU investigation, had been “ready for a police officer” earlier than fatally taking pictures Hong, a father of two.
Constable Devon Northrup and Morgan Russell from South Simcoe Police, who succumbed to their accidents after answering a disturbance name in Innisfil, Ontario, shall be remembered at in the present day’s tribute.
OPP Constable Grzegorz Pierzchala, fatally shot after being ambushed by a person and a lady whereas responding to a name for a automobile in a ditch south of Hamilton in December final 12 months, may also be inducted into the Wall of Honour in the present day.
The Ontario Police Memorial may have one historic addition to the Wall of Honour, Durham Regional Police Constable Vicki Lynn Wilson, who was killed in 1992.
“These officers are Heroes in Life, Not Loss of life,” reads a Toronto Police press launch.
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