In a display Thursday at Westchester County Center replete with wreaths, solemn speeches and bagpipes, officials and emergency authorities saluted the region's fallen policemen.
The Law Enforcement Memorial Day paid respects to 83 police officers, state troopers, detectives and others who died in the line of duty, or from injuries obtained in the line of duty.
Among the remembered were officers who gave their lives as far back as 1792; the most recent was Detective Michael R. Perry of the White Plains Police Department, who perished in 2010.
The noon ceremony also granted Police Honor Awards to a slate of personnel from White Plains, Pelham, Harrison, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and Yonkers police departments, and the New York State Police Department.
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