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This tribute to American law enforcement officers is part of the historic crime bill that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994. At the request of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Public Law 103-322 designates Peace Officers Memorial Day as one of only two days each year during which government agencies, businesses and residents are to fly their U.S. flags at half-staff.
Read More →The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) and Modern City Entertainment are teaming up to create "Heroes Behind the Badge," a documentary about the service and sacrifice of law enforcement officers.
Read More →The Senate approved H.R. 2107, "The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Maintenance Fund Act," and now President Bush has signed the bill into law.
Read More →Bill Alexander has served for five months as interim CEO during the search process and was previously NLEOMF’s executive director of its Memorial for nearly two years.
Read More →The National Law Enforcement Museum has received a collection of artifacts relating to the 2002 case involving John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, who were known as the Beltway Snipers.
Read More →The first-ever national museum dedicated to American law enforcement continues to move forward, with the project recently achieving three significant milestones.
Read More →An elderly woman and her son owe their lives to a detective and two officers from the Ewing (N.J.) Police Department who risked electrocution to extract the two from their crashed van.
Read More →Scheduled to open in late 2013, the 55,000-square-foot, mostly underground institution will offer high-tech interactive exhibitions, as well as a vast collection of law enforcement artifacts and dedicated spaces for research and education.
Read More →Following the museum's formal groundbreaking on Oct. 14, workers began this first phase on Jan. 3. The movement of underground utilities and running water should be completed by November.
Read More →This year's ceremony honored a span of fallen heroes from High Sheriff John Cook of the Mecklenburg County (N.C.) Sheriff's Office whose end of watch was in 1804 to MIT Officer Sean Collier who was murdered during last year's manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
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