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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Famous quotes containing the word officer:
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)