ORANGE PARK – Law enforcement agencies from Northeast Florida will be at Moosehaven on Thursday, May 9, for a single purpose – to never forget the 12 who died in the line of duty in Clay County. …
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ORANGE PARK – Law enforcement agencies from Northeast Florida will be at Moosehaven on Thursday, May 9, for a single purpose – to never forget the 12 who died in the line of duty in Clay County.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Office honored the memories of 11 of its deputies and sheriffs who died in the line of duty, while the Green Cove Springs will remember Police Chief Asdot during the annual ceremony.
National Police Week started in 1962. There are now 23,229 names engraved on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Wall. The first recorded death of a deputy who died in the line of duty was in 1786.
The first death in Clay County was on May 10, 1894, when Sheriff Peeler was shot while trying to break up an argument between two men at a train station.
Three of the fallen – CCSO Sgt. Eric Twisdale and Dep. Clint Seagle and Green Cove Springs Police Chief Derek Asdot – died of complications from COVID-19.
The ceremony will include the presentation of colors, lowering the flag to half-staff, a roll call of the fallen, a moment of silence announced by county dispatchers to all deputies and officers, a 21-gun salute and the playing of “Taps.”
The public is welcome to join the event.