Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Our sincerest sympathies to the family and friends of this fallen hero, Detective Dressel. We, as parents of a police officer, know the dangers every officer faces on a daily basis to help keep our streets safer. Our prayers are with all those who loved this very brave man.

David & Shirley Macy
Parents of a Police Officer

February 22, 2007

God speed. Your Family will be in my prayers.

Corection Officer Debra Vasquez
Lucas County Sheriff's Department

February 22, 2007

MY HEART AND PRAYERS GO OUT TO HIS FAMILY. I KNOW THAT THE POLICE AND FIREMEN DO A JOB THAT PROTECTS US ALL. WE DO NOT APPRECIATE IT AS MUCH AS WE SHOULD. MY HEART MOURNS FOR YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN

PAT
TOLEDO RESIDENT

February 22, 2007

God Bless you and your family

Detective
Cranford Police Dept (NJ)

February 22, 2007

True Hero. We need more great cops like you in the U.S.A. I feel for your family and friends during these hard times. God bless them and watch over them. Aloha and Mahalo.

DS2/ WALL
Hawaii State SHeriffs

February 22, 2007

Our prayers are with you, your family and the entire Toledo Police Department.

Cpl Jean Paul Rochat
Swiss Army, MP Service, Traffic Unit

February 22, 2007

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family, friends, and sibling officers of Detective Dressel. May you rest in eternal peace our brother.

Detective Mark Techmanski
City of Syracuse, NY Police Department

February 22, 2007

I am just so sorry. I ask God why? Here was a good man who was helping and watching over all of us and this stranger takes his life. This is so sad. I just want you to know that all of you are in my prayers. God Bless. Thank you, Keith.

Suburb Citizen

February 22, 2007

"The Creation of Peace Officers"
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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 his uniform.
"He has 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.
"He has to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee
and half-eaten meals. And he has 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 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 he already knows and wishes he'd taken
that accounting job.) "Another pair here in the side of his head for his
partners' safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look
reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, 'You'll be all right ma'am, when he knows it isn't so."
"Lord," said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this 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 a 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 the elements of a hundred crimes;
recite Miranda warnings in its sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest
a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five learned judges to
debate the legality of the stop... and still it keeps its sense of humor.
This officer also has phenomenal personal control. He 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, for justice."
"You're a genius," said the angel.
The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," he said.
- Anonymous

You will be missed, but not forgotten. Rest in peace.

February 22, 2007

Rest in peace my brother

patrolman
Brush PD Colorado

February 22, 2007

Our thoughts and prayers are with Det. Dressel's family and friends and with the entire T.P.D. family.

Monroe County Corrections

February 22, 2007

Our sincere thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friends and fellow Officers of Detective Dressel. We will never forget you.

Patrol Division
Knox County Sheriff's Office, Rockland Maine

February 22, 2007

So sorry for the dressel family on their loss my heart goes out to the family and all the police officers of the dept they did a great job of capturing the drug heads.
Let's all hope they don't get off with a slap on the hand.!!
and the courts do the right job........

Tom S.

February 22, 2007

Rest in Peace Detective Dressel, your family is in my prayers.
"In valor there is hope...."

Detective
Chicago Police Department

February 22, 2007

God bless you and your family...

OK LEO

February 22, 2007

My thoughts and prayers are with you today and will be in the days to come. I know the shock pain and void that feels your heart. Family, Friends & Co-Workers, please know that your loved one will forever be held in our memories. Our Hero's live forever.
Detective Dressel, thank you for your service and the ultimate sacrifice you made for the rest of us. I salute you Sir., may you rest in peace now, along with your fellow fallen Hero's. Keep watch over those you left behind, you took part of there hearts with you, as you left part of yours with them. With hearfelt sympathy,
Carolyn Moore,mother-in-law,
Sgt. Jeffrey T. Hewitt:EOW 4-4-04
Asheville, North Carolina

Carolyn Moore

February 22, 2007

I was very sad to learn of Detective Dressel's passing. I do not know of him personally, but I have a high level of respect for law officers who put themselves in the line of fire. He is truly a hero, and will be remembered as one of Toledo's finest. My prayers go out to his friends and family.

Phil
Local Resident

February 21, 2007

Rest in peace brother.

Officer Dwight Rackley
Louisville Metro PD, KY

February 21, 2007

Rest in Peace, Brother.

OFC B. GRAJEK

February 21, 2007

Thank you Det. Dressel for protecting us, and doing a job well done. My heart goes out to your family, friends and co-workers who are hurting so deeply. May you rest in peace.

To the Dressel family,
Please accept my sincere condolences, prayers, and christian love from the bottom of my heart.

pam wright
citizen of toledo ohio

February 21, 2007

We have lost a hero, a father, and a friend.
I will mis running in to you on the streets around town joking and laughing about playing football for the Toledo Cruisaders. The times you came by the house on or off duty. My family and I pray for your family and loved ones, and you fellow officers.

GOD bless you for being you!!!

steve

Steven William Shadix

February 21, 2007

Keith,
I never had the pleasure and honor of knowing you, but it sounds like we had the same interests and career path.. Vice and Narc! Please know that the whole LE family is here and we will take care of the family that you left behind while doing God's work. Keep an eye on me out here in CA from upstairs, and know that "my badge has gained new luster from the life you lived and the career that you had." My heart and thoughts are with your family as I hit the streets tonight.

R. Zackon #539
Los Rios Police Dept. CA / and Ohio State Univ. alumnus

February 21, 2007

My heart is so heavy with grief. This young officer made a difference in my life as well as my sons life. He was not like the average officer at work , he was a good man who sought out the good in others. (crooks and criminals) When Officer Dressel had the opportunity to talk to individuals, he knew who was who, and treated those indivisuals accordingly. Words of sorrow and sympothy, can't change what has happened. Just know that I am feeling this loss just as a close family member is. May the family find comfort in knowing that people on the street are suffering behind their loss just as they are. signed Someone Who Truly Cares.( A Mom Who's Life he Changed,) Bless You!

February 21, 2007

I was immediately saddened and struck by the news this morning when I heard Keith had been killed in the line of duty.
I went to school with him and he truly was one of the nicest and most geniune guys around.
My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, especially his wife and children. I am the mother of a five year old and my heart sinks when I think of his children now going on without there father.
May his family find comfort in the knowledge that he is now with his Heavenly Father, and now he protects all of us from above.

Heather (Groth) Smith
Whiteford School Classmate

February 21, 2007

My sincerest sympathy to the family and friends of Detective Keith Dressel as well as to the Toledo Police Department. Rest in peace Detective Dressel, you are gone but will not be forgotten...

Dispatcher Sue Rusch
Punta Gorda PD, Punta Gorda FL

February 21, 2007