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SECURITY OFFICER MEMORIAL WEEK ANNOUNCED
Monday, May 31, 2010
PRESS RELEASEThe 2nd Annual INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE OFFICER MEMORIAL WEEK has been scheduled for SEPTEMBER 19-25 2010.
This week has been designated for security officers along with law enforcement and others in the security community, families, friends and the general public to pay their respects and gratitude to more than 450 Private Security Officers who have been killed in the line of duty during the past six years and the many others who died before that in service to those that they were hired to protect, serve, and guard, preventing harm that would otherwise come against their employer’s property, employees, visitors and the general public.
This year’s Memorial Week will include numerous events scheduled in Atlanta Georgia, Nashville TN. and in Charlotte North Carolina.
On September 20th 2010 the event will begin with a live event and by reading the names of all security personnel killed on duty in the past five years.
In addition to this, a special remarks wall on the Private Officer website will be available for family members, friends and other visitors to leave notes, poems, songs, pictures and other mementos for these fallen hero’s.
A candlelight vigil and prayer by the association Chaplain will also take place on Wednesday evening in downtown Atlanta and in Nashville and Charlotte.
Other events are also planned in numerous other states and in the U.K., Brazil, Canada, and Australia and a number of other countries.
Each year, more than eighty security officers are killed in the U.S. while in the performance of their duties. Internationally, more than one thousand security officers are killed yearly while in the performance of their duties as they protect and serve.
About Private Officer International: This international association started in 2004 as
a training and networking resource for private security officers and has grown to include members in forty states and ten countries.
a training and networking resource for private security officers and has grown to include members in forty states and ten countries.
Membership is open to all security officers, loss prevention agents, campus and school officers, law enforcement, vendors of the security industry and the general public who support the association’s goals and purpose.
Website: http://www.privateofficer.com/
Contact Info: Kyle T. Greene Email:kyletgreene@privateofficer.com
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