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2019 National Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week
May 15, 2019
Photo courtesy of the White House
May 15, 2019 - President Donald Trump proudly
greets law enforcement officers before his remarks honoring their
fallen comrades and all law enforcement officers on 2019 National
Peace Officers Memorial Day in Washington D.C.
America's law enforcement officers
serve with courage, dedication, and strength. They fearlessly uphold
our laws—even at the risk of personal harm—to safeguard our
property, our liberty, and our lives. We owe them, and their
families, our full and enduring support. On National Peace Officers
Memorial Day and throughout Police Week, we express our unending
gratitude to those brave men and women in blue who selflessly
protect our families and defend our communities.
Presidential Proclamation
2019 National Peace
Officers Memorial Day and Police Week
On Peace Officers Memorial Day and throughout
Police Week, we express our unending gratitude to our Nation’s law
enforcement officers. Those brave men and women selflessly confront
danger to protect our families and defend our communities. We also
honor those in blue who have been killed or disabled in the line of
duty. We are especially mindful of the tremendous sacrifices of the
106 heroes who laid down their lives last year while protecting
their communities.
My Administration is working on several
fronts to enhance the health and safety of our Nation’s law
enforcement officers. The Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to
promote initiatives that provide funding for bulletproof vests,
active shooter training, the National Blue Alert System, and other
programs that bolster the physical and mental health of those who
protect us. We are making surplus military equipment available to
law enforcement agencies. We are implementing the Law Enforcement
Mental Health and Wellness Act, which I signed into law last year,
to improve the delivery of and access to mental health and wellness
services. And when tragedy does strike, DOJ’s Public Safety
Officers’ Benefits Program stands ready and able to assist the
families of the fallen and catastrophically injured.
The best
way we can support law enforcement is to reduce violent crime. My
Administration has secured $50 million in funding for one of the
most effective crime prevention strategies in America, the Project
Safe Neighborhoods initiative. This results-based and data-proven
initiative is reducing violent crime nationwide by leveraging local
law enforcement and community partnerships, along with strategic
enforcement efforts, to arrest the most violent criminals in the
most violent locations. Through the combined efforts of all levels
of law enforcement, violent crime in our country is falling.
Our Nation’s law enforcement officers serve with courage,
dedication, and strength. They fearlessly enforce our laws, even at
the risk of personal peril, safeguarding our property, our liberty,
and our lives. We owe them, and their families, our full and
enduring support.
By a joint resolution approved October 1,
1962, as amended (76 Stat. 676), and by Public Law 103-322, as
amended (36 U.S.C. 136-137), the President has been authorized and
requested to designate May 15 of each year as “Peace Officers
Memorial Day” and the week in which it falls as “Police Week.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United
States of America, do hereby proclaim May 15, 2019, as Peace
Officers Memorial Day and May 12 through May 18, 2019, as Police
Week. In humble appreciation of our hardworking law enforcement
officers, Melania and I will light the White House in blue on May
15. I call upon all Americans to observe Peace Officers Memorial Day
and Police Week with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also
call on the Governors of the States and Territories and officials of
other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to
direct that the flag be flown at half-staff on Peace Officers
Memorial Day. I further encourage all Americans to display the flag
from their homes and businesses on that day.
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of May, in the
year of our Lord two thousand nineteen, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-third.
DONALD J. TRUMP
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