On December 8, 2009, Richard and Sue Cheney signed the papers with
C.O.P.S. Executive Director Suzie Sawyer giving the 117-acre property in
rural Virginia to Concerns of Police Survivors. The land is worth
$293,000 and will be a great ‘home’ in the future for America’s law
enforcement survivors.
download our CopsAlive.com “Plan Your Legacy” worksheet and spend a few minutes thinking about how you would like your contribution to law enforcement to be remembered.
I went to the funeral today of a great man, my friend and a man who served the Colorado State Patrol for 36 years and retired in 1990 as a Major, Darrell E. Penner.
What legacy will you leave from your job in law enforcement? Lives saved? People helped? or Communities changed? What legacy will you leave in life? A healthy child? A happy and financially secure family? Maybe an improved world? Cops are no different than most people who want to make a difference in the world and in fact I would say that we have an even healthier dose of that desire to make a positive impact. I would also suggest that we have a greater chance to make that world changing difference just by the nature of our personalities. We are problem solvers, we are leaders and we know how to manage people. We are also very well connected with our communities and know how to make things happen.
Song about slain police officers and their families is being used as a fund raiser by C.O.P.S. (Concerns of Police Survivors).
Cops must take action now to reduce the huge number of police suicides and create police suicide prevention programs in their own departments.
On this Memorial Day it is our responsibility, as police officers, to continue to protect and serve what they have fought to create and to also be willing to give our last full measure if needed.
In law enforcement we must elevate our profession in a tradition of honor and to build a positive legacy of our lives through service to others, then pay tribute to those who have given their lives in that service.
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