by Dennis Dalman
news@thenewsleaders.com
The week of May 13-19 has been proclaimed Police Week in Sartell by the city’s mayor, Ryan Fitzthum.
Fitzthum read the proclamation at the May 13 City Council meeting directly after the swearing in of the new deputy police chief, Wayne Schreiner.
In his proclamation, the mayor noted some grim data. Last year, there were 60,211 recorded assaults against law-enforcement officers, resulting in 17,476 injuries and 200 deaths.
Since 1791, the year of the first recorded police officer’s murder, there have been 21,000 officers killed in the line of duty.
Currently, there are more than 900,000 law-enforcement officers serving in the nation, including 21 on the Sartell Police Department.
Fitzthum extended his thanks to all of those officers, especially to those serving the residents of Sartell.
