Police Week: Alaska State Trooper speaks on significance
‘We want to protect, we want to serve’
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The week of May 11 to May 17 is known as Police Week, with May 15 as National Peace Officers Memorial Day. To speak on the importance and significance of the event, Alaska State Trooper Capt. Moose Sims joined Alaska’s News Source in the studio.
He said the best way to commemorate the event is to honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice and to remember their families as well.
“I have friends and mentors that have lost their lives ... and given the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty and that have their names on the wall there in Washington which I’ve had the opportunity to see the over 24,000 names and take the time to remember them and the sacrifice they made and honor them,” Sims said.
When asked what he would like Alaskans to know, he said police officers like himself want to protect and serve the community.
“We want to protect, we want to serve,” he said. “We go in knowing that we could have to pay the ultimate sacrifice, obviously none of us wants to do that, but we are willing to go forward and to pay that sacrifice.”
The state is participating through multiple events, including a memorial ceremony in North Pole on Thursday that paid tribute to 72 law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty in Alaska.
Juneau will be holding a police memorial ceremony on Friday at noon at the Evergreen Cemetery, 601 Seater Street.
Anchorage will also host a ceremony on Tuesday, May 20, at 3 p.m. at the Alaska State Crime Detection Laboratory, 4805 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave.
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