Police Week V@�
Choice ONT
Choice of Champions
1Nhereas, there are approximately 900,000 law enforcement officers serving in communities across
the United States, including the dedicated members of the Clermont Police Department, and
Whereas, there have been 15,725 assaults against law enforcement officers in 2014, resulting in
approximately 13,824 injunes, and
Whereas, since the first recorded death in 1791, more than 20,000 law enforcement officers in the
United States have made the ultimate sacnfice and been killed in the line of duty, and
Whereas, the names of these dedicated public servants are engraved on the walls of the National
Law Enforcement Officers Memonal in Washington,D C , and
Whereas, 252 new names of fallen heroes are being added to the National Law Enforcement
Officers Memonal this spnng, including 123 officers killed in 2015 and 129 officers killed in previous
years, and
Whereas, the service and sacnfice of all officers killed in the line of duty will be honored dunng
the National Law Enforcement Officers Memonal Fund's 28th Annual Candlelight Vigil on the evening of
May 13,2016, and
'Whereas, May 15, 2016 is designated as Peace Officers Memonal Day, in honor of all fallen
officers and their families and U S flags should be flown at half-staff,
Now, Therefore, I, Gail L Ash, Mayor of the City of Clermont, Flonda, do hereby proclaim
the week of May 15 through May 21,2016 as
NationaCToCice Week
in the City of Clermont and publicly salute the service of law enforcement officers in our community and
in communities across the nation
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of
Clermont to be affixed this 10`h day of May in the year of 2016
Gail L Ash, Mayor
ATTEST:
Tracy Ackroyd Howe, City Clerk