Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest in Peace my brother in blue
Know that we will not forget you
November 27 will always be a bad date
But take comfort that we will meet at heaven's gate.

God bless your family and friends.

Officer L. D. Kramer
Portsmouth PD, Virginia

November 29, 2005

Officer Breland,
When I got the call my heart dropped. Officers down...time to go. I was too late. You were taken too soon. My prayers are with your family. May God bless you and keep you close. Rest easy my friend, we've got it from here.

Sgt. Clay Jones
Harrison County Sheriff's Dept., MS

November 29, 2005

My family would like to send our condolences to the family, friends, & fellow co-workers of P.O. Brandon Breland. You're in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. May God give you the strength to carry on and help heal your hearts. I'd like to express my gratitude to all the brave men & women in law enforcement who continue to do their jobs protecting those in their communities everyday. May God watch over each & everyone of you and keep you safe.

Gail M Pabst
Aunt of fallen Detroit P.O. Jennifer Fettig eow 2-16-04

November 29, 2005

“REMEMBER ME”
Law enforcement officers are, indeed, a special breed of people. Ask anyone on the street and they will tell you that they would not have our jobs for anything in the world. It takes something special to do what we do and at the same time be able to even contemplate retirement. We try to be optimists. Unfortunately, there are a few of us who will never make that date with retirement. By the very nature of our job, we are at risk everyday of losing our lives, either at the hand of some deranged individual or in some other situation that we, by virtue of our occupation, may be unable to avoid. Some people have recognized the hazardous duties we involve ourselves in, the risks we take, and the pride we take in accomplishing that job. There is National Law Enforcement Week, dedicated to us who gladly accept the responsibility of protecting the citizens in our respective jurisdictions. National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Day is dedicated to those who gave their lives in the line of duty. These are but two examples of remembrances specifically for law enforcement personnel. Remembrances that come but once a year. We should remind fellow officers of another type of remembrance, one that will last a lifetime. Sooner or later, a doctor will pronounce us dead. It is inevitable. Regardless of whatever happens, death is the end we will all have to face.
“IT IS IN DEATH THAT WE CAN LIVE FOREVER”
Author Unknown

Jim Moore
New Orleans P.D., Retired

November 29, 2005

Rest in peace sir. Thank you for your service. We are only two counties over, (Covington) its like it is in our own back yard. Family we are praying for you in this terrible time. God bless.

Shannon
Collins Fire Dept. (Mississippi)

November 29, 2005

Thank you for your service and sacrifice, Officer Breland. May God bless your family, friends and fellow officers. Rest in peace, Blue Angel.

Carin E. Sollman
wife of Easton Police Officer Jesse E. Sollman EOW 3/25/05

November 29, 2005

Dear Brandon,

May God guide you through the gates of heaven and bless your family and friends.

We'll take it from here our brother!

Your brothers and sisters of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office

PBSO
Palm Beach County Sheriff's office

November 29, 2005

Dear Brandon,

May God guide you through the gates of heaven and bless your family and friends.

We'll take it from here our brother!

Your brothers and sisters of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's office

PBSO
Palm Beach County Sheriff's office

November 29, 2005

My fellow brother, thank you for protecting the city that I grew up in and started my law enforcement career in. Officer Fite's and your death will leave a extreme loss in the hearts of the close law enforcement community in Wiggins and Stone County. My prayers go to the families of you and Officer Fite. We will meet again and I look forward to walking through the gates of Heaven to see my fellow brothers in arms that have gone on before me. I must now repeat the words that God has already told you, "Job well done my child."

Detective Bradley Walker
Gulfport Police Department, Mississippi

November 29, 2005

REST IN PEACE,FROM YOUR BROTHERS IN BLUE IN TEXAS.

PTM. K.MCGEE
MURPHY,TX POLICE DEPT.

November 29, 2005

rest in peace

ryan
phoenix,az

November 29, 2005

"My old friend i recall, the times we had hanging on my wall, i wouldnt trade them for gold because they laugh and they cry me but some how sanctify me woven in the stories i have told and tell again. . . .my old friend, i apologize for the year that has past since the last time you and i dusted off those memories, the running and the races, the people and the places, there was always somewhere else we had to be, and time got then. . . my old friend. My old friend this songs for you, cause a few simple verses was the least that i could do to tell the world that you were here and the love and the laughter will live on long after all of the sadness and the tears. . . WE'LL MEET AGAIN. . . MY OLD FRIEND! -Tim McGraw-

"PEOPLE SLEEP PEACEFULLY IN THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT ONLY BECAUSE ROUGH MEN STAND READY TO DO VIOLENCE ON THEIR BEHALF."
MLEOTA BASIC CLASS 205 "do or die 205!"

Brandon, ill see you at the finish line!!! i love you man!

patrolman 1st class
vicksburg police dept

November 29, 2005

THE HTFD POLICE DEPT REGRET THE LOST OF OFF. BRELAND AND OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND CO-WORKERS. MAY HE REST IN PEACE.

OFF. DON LINDE
HARTFORD POLICE DEPT

November 29, 2005

From One Brother to Another
We Stand Side by Side

Who Took That 10 Week Journey
Right There by My Side

We Will Never Forget Those Days That Have Past
For In Your Memory They Will Always Last

Class "205" Remembers Those Days
Long, Cold and Muddy, and Then In The Rain

You Gave Us Your Word and Then Your Trust
As You Stood Up and Did All That You Must

For That We Are Thankful and We Pray In Your Name
God, Watch Over This Angel and Guide His Way!

Fellow Recruit, Friend And Officer
Steven S. Snow

Patrol Officer
Vicksburg Police

November 29, 2005

On behalf of my family I would like to say how sorry we are to hear of another officer lost in the line of duty. Our prayers are with the family. May God give you strength during this most difficult time. Thank you and God bless you Officer Breland for your dedicated service and ultimate sacrifice.

Michelle Rogers
Sister of Sgt. J. Dragus EOW 10/20/05

Michelle Rogers

November 29, 2005

Godspeed brothers in blue. You will never be foregotten.

patrolman jeremy brassard
Vicksburg Police Dept.

November 29, 2005

May God bless you and your family at this time of sorrow. You will never be forgotten by your entire police family.

DE
St. Louis City Police

November 29, 2005

My deepest sympathies to the family of Officer Breland. Your ultimate sacrifice is truly appreciated.

Reality

Imagine how our world would be
If every police officer quit
Turned in their gun, turned in their badge,
Just finally had enough of it.

No respect, no loyalty,
No appreciation of all they do,
They’d give their lives for all of us,
These wonderful officers of “Blue”.

Kicked at, spit on,
Punched, stabbed and shot,
Everyday assaults on officers,
Done…without thinking a second thought!

Our laws are in favor of criminals,
There’s always some loophole in their case,
Out again to commit more crimes and murders
…creates pain, that we, the family and friends
…in time will never erase.

Why should they do it?
Why take the risk?
Why put their life on the line?
Subject their loved ones to endless suffering,
When their precious life is lost while fighting crime.

More murders, more kidnappings, more robberies and rapes,
Just to mention a few,
Please ask yourself how life would be,
If there were NO officers in Blue!

Would you do it? Could you do it?
And for how many…would YOU give it all?
Rewards are a 21 gun salute, a Medal of Honor,
And your name gets added to the Wall.

Think about it. Why are they here?
And why do some hate them so?
Because they enforce the laws that put convicts and murderers
In jail serving time, or on “Death Row”.

All give some and some give all,
It’s a risk they chose to take:
To put their heart and soul in it,
To put their lives at stake.

So, please take a moment,
Please give it deep thought,
Think of what “you can do”…

To help show respect,
To help follow the laws,
So we’d quit losing our Heroes in Blue!

Written by Jaclyn Pocceschi Mosley
Sister of Fallen Officer Rodney F. Pocceschi EOW 6/23/03

November 29, 2005

Thank you for your dedicated service. Having lost my son in the line of duty, I can sympathize with your pain. My thoughts and prayers are with you, asking God to give you comfort & strength through the days and nights ahead.

Brenda Lucas, Mother of fallen officer
Anthony D. Lucas, Police Chief (MS), EOW – February 4, 2005

November 29, 2005

R.I.P Brother in Blue.
you will never be forgotten

Officer J P Mills
Chesapeake Police Department

November 29, 2005

Patrol Officer Breland, you have served your community and your state with dignity and honor, we will carry on from here. To the family of Patrol Officer Breland you all are in our thoughts and prayers. Please remember that you all are now part of a much larger family. To the men and the women of the Wiggins Police Department hold your heads high as you all carry on. Be careful and watch each others backs. Rest in Peace Brother

Detective First Grade Robert F. Jackson
Metropolitan Police Department Washington DC/Homicide Branch

November 29, 2005

To the family, friends, and co-workers of Officers Breland and Fite, all of us at the Florence Police Department want to extend or condolences to you. These Officers gave their lives doing the job we all love to do. No words can comfort you at a time like this, but these HEROS will not be forgotten! As a member of a small Mississippi department, we know how close we all are to each other. Rest easy Brothers, we have the watch.

Capt. Kevin Isbell
Florence, MS Police Department

November 29, 2005

The policeman stood and faced God,
Which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining,
Just as brightly as his brass.

"Step forward now, policeman.
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To my church have you been true?"

The policeman squared his shoulders and said,
"No lord, I guess I ain't,
Because those of us who carry a badge
can't always be a saint."

I've had to work most Sundays,
and at times my talk was rough,
and sometimes I've been violent,
Because the streets are awfully tough.

But I never took a penny,
That wasn't mine to keep
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep.

And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at time I shook with fear.
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.

I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fear.

If you've a place for me here, Lord,
It needn't be so grand.
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't I'll understand.

There was a silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod.
As the policeman waited quietly,
For the judgement of his god.

"Step forward now, policeman,
You've born your burdens well.
Come walk a beat on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in hell"

GREGG HOUSTON
SOUTH CAROLINA

November 29, 2005

Rest in peace my Brother. Our deepest sympathy to your friends and family.

Officer S. Still
Huntsville Police Dept. (Alabama)

November 29, 2005

“When God made Peace Officers….”

When the lord was creating Peace Officers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.”

And the Lord said, Have you read the spec on this order? A Peace Officer has to be able to run five miles through alleys in the dark, scale walls, enter homes the health inspector wouldn’t touch, and not wrinkle their uniform.

They have to be able to sit in an undercover car all day on a stakeout, cover a homicide scene that night, canvass the neighborhood for witnesses, and testify in court the next day.

They have to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and half- eaten meals. And they have to have six pairs of hands.

The angel shook her head slowly and said, “Six pairs of hands….No Way.”

“It’s not the hands that are causing me the problems,” said the Lord, “It’s the three pairs of eyes an officer has to have.”

That’s on the standard model? asked the angel.

The Lord nodded. One pair that sees through a bulge in a pocket before he asks, “May I see what’s in there sir?” (When they already know and wishes they had taken that accounting job.) Another pair here in the side of their head for their partners’ safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, “ You’ll be alright ma’am, when they know it isn’t so.”

“Lord,” said the angel, touching his sleeve,” rest and work tomorrow.”

“I can’t,” said the Lord, “I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk into a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on civil service paycheck.”

The angel circled the model of the Peace Officer very slowly, “Can it think?” she asked.

“You bet,” said the Lord, “It can tell you elements of a hundred crimes, recite Miranda warnings in it’s sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five judges to debate the legality of the stop…and still it keeps it’s sense of humor.

This officer also has phenomenal personal control. They can deal with crime scenes painted in HELL, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder victim’s family’ and then read in the daily paper how Law Enforcement isn’t sensitive to the rights of criminal suspects.

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the Peace Officer. “There’s a leak,” she pronounced. “I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model.”

“That’s not a leak,” said the Lord, “It’s a tear.”

“What’s the tear for?” asked the angel.

“It’s for bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, and for justice.”

“You’re a genius,” said the angel.

The Lord looked sober. “I didn’t put it there,” he said.


Anonymous

Senior Instructor
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

November 29, 2005