Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Matt is not just a true hero but was a great person
Worked with him in the 5th.

Det Al Brandel (retired)
NCPD

December 16, 2024

RIP Matty will always remember your smile. The short time I was assigned to EAB was memorable because of you

PO R La Guardia
NCPD

December 16, 2023

It’s been a long time, Matt, and Rest In Peace forever

Sgt Kevin Matthews. (Retired)
NCPD

December 16, 2023

Matt was a great guy. A pleasure to be around and a pleasure to work with. Rest in peace old friend.

Det. Bob Niven Retired.
Nassau County NY, P.D.

December 16, 2023

RIP. Never forgotten.

Det Al Brandel. Retired
Nassau County

December 16, 2022

Matt was a great friend and would do anything for you. I knew him not only as a police officer in the 5th pct but also as a member of the Valley Stream Fire Department. RIP my friend.

PO Ronald Garofalo
NCPD

December 16, 2022

I knew and worked with Officer Giglio in the Fifth Precinct. He was a nice person and gentle man. He chose too be a Police Officer/AMT. I will never forget the night he was killed. I just happened too be on my RMP post. Members of the NCPD Bureau of Special Operation apprehended the perp hiding in a nearby barn. Rest In Peace Brother, think of you!

Detective
NCPD

December 16, 2022

Dear Matt, God bless you. You were one of the best I ever worked with.

Detective Bob Niven, Retired
Nassau County NY P.D.

December 16, 2022

Rest in peace Officer Giglio.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

June 28, 2021

I loved working alongside Matty in the Fifth very much. He was not only a gentleman and great EMT but a religious man as well. We won’t forget him.

PO Kenneth Konrad retired since 2000
Nassau County PD Fifth Precinct.

April 28, 2021

I worked with Matt in the Fifth Pct for many years. He was a real Gentleman and a pleasure to be around.
Never had a bad word to say about anyone.
Rest in Peace Matt.

Ptl. Edwin S. Graham, Retired 1974
Nassau County Police Dept.

December 16, 2020

Matt was as fine a person as I have ever met. We worked together in the 4th Pct. for a time just after he came out of the academy. He impressed my with his friendly confident demeanor. Rest In Peace dear friend.

Detective Bob Niven, Retired
Nassau County Police, NY

December 17, 2019

God Bless you Hero and may you Rest In Peace.

Police Officer Donald Church
NCPD

December 16, 2019

Matt was a great friend and would do anything for you. He was also a member of VSFD Rescue Company #1

PO Ron Garofalo
5th Pct NCPD & Ex-Chief VSFD

December 16, 2019

The day you gave your life, I swear mine. With pride.

Sargent Noel Rosado Butler
Puerto Rico Police Deparment

June 7, 2019

Matty only was on the job a few years when I was assigned to the fifth and precinct of the Nassau County Police Department
I was assigned to a foot post on the south side of the Pct
Matty operated an ambulance
Which responded to aided cases
And also made it easy for him to back up on other radio calls
I went on to operate a police car also on the south side
I remember Matty as being a real gentlemen who was always there when you needed him
As a matter of fact Matty didn’t necessarily have have to be where he was when he was shot
But because he wasn’t busy you knew he would be there
He was a cop’s cop
Rest In Peace brother
You will never be forgotten

Captain Ralph Giardina, Retired
Nassau County Police Department

December 21, 2018

Matty only was on the job a few years when I was assigned to the fifth and precinct of the Nassau County Police Department
I was assigned to a foot post on the south side of the Pct
Matty operated an ambulance
Which responded to aided cases
And also made it easy for him to back up on other radio calls
I went on to operate a police car also on the south side
I remember Matty as being a real gentlemen who was always there when you needed him
As a matter of fact Matty didn’t necessarily have have to be where he was when he was shot
But because he wasn’t busy you knew he would be there
He was a cop’s cop
Rest In Peace brother
You will never be forgotten

Captain Ralph Giardina, Retired
Nassau County Police Department

December 21, 2018

I never met Matt, but thought of him often. His photo hangs in the hallway of the Emergency Ambulance Bureau, his command when he was taken from us. Every time I passed his photo, I said a little prayer. I also thought of him every time I worked the ambulance he was assigned to that night. Sleep well, you are remembered.

Police Medic Tom Malone
NCPD ret.

December 17, 2018

I met Matty when I graduated the academy in 1969 and was assigned to SSB (now EAB) We went through AMT training together and sometimes were doubled in the ambulance. In 1971 I transferred to patrol in the 5th Pct and still worked with Matty since he was assigned the roving ambulance in the 5th. He was one of the kindest people I have ever met. He always had a pleasant and positive attitude. RIP Matty

PO Carl Freiermuth/ Retired
NCPD 5th Precinct

December 16, 2018

I knew Matt not only as a brother police officer but also as brother in the Valley Stream Fire Department he was one of the good most wonderful person I knew. Matt RIP and safe and happy holiday season to all......Ron Garofalo

PO Ronald Garofalo
NCPD

December 16, 2018

I was appointed on January 24, 1964. Matt sat in front of me in the academy. Matt was physically a big guy, but he was no hard nose cop. He was well liked by all the guys in our class as well as the departments supervision. October 7, 1975, the evening that Matt was shot I worked in the Narcotics Bureau. Matt was assigned to the Ambulance Bureau before we had EMT's. John Mackenzie shot Matt when Matt caught him committing a burglary. Mackenzie was committing the burglary while armed with a hand gun. Mackenzie was captured, tried and convicted of Murder. He was sentence to 25 years to life. He came up for Parole in 2000. So every 2 years we had to write letters to the Parole Board to keep him in Prison. 16 years later after again being denied parole Mackenzie hung himself in his cell. So sad Matt, a really good guy, has missed so much.

Ret. Det. Guy R. Peter
NCPD Academy Class of 1/24/64 classmate and one of Matt's many friends

December 16, 2018

Would be hard to find a more decent human being then Matt. We worked together when MAtt was a rookie. A real gentleman taken from us much to soon.

Det. Bob Niven, Ret.
Nassau County P.D.

December 19, 2017

May god bless mattie and all who loved him, one of the good guys.

Ken weydener p.o.
Ncpd

December 17, 2017

I worked with Matt and will never forget .
RIP Matt

Thought and prayers to his family.

Detective Al Brandel , retired
Nassau County Police Department

December 16, 2017

I have been overseas for a while, and, in connection with a Parole Board letter I am now in the process of composing on behalf of friends whose family member (non-LEO) was a murder victim, it has just come to my attention that Mr. MacKenzie has now voluntarily received the ultimate "No Parole" letter.

Of course this is no cause for celebration, but at least Officer Giglio's family no longer needs to go through the biennial angst inherent in the parole hearing process, as my friends are compelled to continue to do.

I did not know Officer Giglio, but by all accounts he was not only a model LEO, but an exemplary community member as well. Perhaps his friends, family, and colleagues can now talk more about his life, and less about his death. Not complete closure, but about as close to ideal justice as can be expected.

Kenneth H Ryesky, Esq.
Former IRS agent

April 6, 2017