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Public Law 104-329 [3] (October 20, 1996) created a Memorial Maintenance Fund, managed by the United States Secretary of the Interior and funded in part by the sale of 500,000 National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Commemorative Silver Dollars issued by the U.S. Mint. The memorial is adjacent to the National Law Enforcement Museum.
The bill was signed on May 16, 2014, and extended until November 9, 2016, the authority of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, a nonprofit organization, to construct a museum on federal lands within the District of Columbia honoring law enforcement officers. [3] The museum opened October 18, 2018. [4]
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
National Capitol Columns; National Law Enforcement Museum; National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial; National Slave Memorial; National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.) Navy – Merchant Marine Memorial
The formal memorial is on May 15, and Police Week is the calendar week in which the memorial falls. Other events of National Police Week include an annual Blue Mass, Candlelight Vigil, Wreath Laying Ceremony, National Police Survivors Conference, [1] Honor Guard Competition, [2] and the Emerald Society & Pipe Band March and Service. [3]
May 15 was designated National Peace Officers Memorial Day in 1962 by an act signed by President John F. Kennedy. The week in which May 15 falls is designated National Police Week.
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial; National Police Memorial (Australia) ... National Police Memorial (United Kingdom) North American Game Warden Museum; O.
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, a memorial honoring U.S. law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title National Police Memorial .