Officer Down
The Delaware County Courthouse and Park Police has, as of 2005, lost one officer in the line of duty, Corporal Ernest Lang. According to their web site; Corporal Lang was shot while attempting to foil a hold-up robbery on March 22, 1977 in the city of Chester. Though mortally wounded, he managed to disable one of the suspects and prevent any loss of civilian life.
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“The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession of a police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
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