{"id":55461,"date":"2025-04-22T19:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=55461"},"modified":"2025-04-22T19:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T23:54:46","slug":"2025-annual-polk-county-peace-officers-memorial-service-set-for-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2025\/04\/22\/2025-annual-polk-county-peace-officers-memorial-service-set-for-may-1\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Annual Polk County Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Service Set for May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"e5e5e6\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #e5e5e6;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"241\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/unnamed-40-1024x241.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55462 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/unnamed-40-1024x241.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/unnamed-40-300x71.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/unnamed-40-768x180.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/unnamed-40.webp 1200w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Fraternal Order of Police Polk County Lodge #46 and the Polk County Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, Inc., will present the 37th Annual Polk County Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Service on Thursday, May 1, 2025, starting at 10:00 AM at the Polk County Law Enforcement Memorial in the Lakeland Veterans Memorial Park. The park is located on Lime Street, between Lake Beulah Drive and the west side of the R.P. Funding Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are grateful that no new names of fallen heroes will be added to the memorial this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each of the 37 fallen officers will be honored during the Memorial Service \u201cRoll Call of Heroes.\u201d Family members of fallen officers, representatives from various Polk County Law Enforcement and Corrections agencies, public service organizations, and Federal, State, County and Local government agencies will be participating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highlights of the service will include: Joint Agency Officer Processional March; Presentation of Colors by a Joint Agency Color Guard; Roll Call of Heroes; helicopter Fly Over; Retreat of the Fallen Rider by the PCSO Mounted Unit; bagpipe players; 3 Gun Volley; and Taps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immediately following the memorial service, the 37th Annual Memorial Service Luncheon, hosted by the FOP Polk County Lodge #46 and the Polk County Law Enforcement Memorial Fund Inc., will take place at the FOP Polk County Lodge #46, located at 125 West Brannen Rd, Lakeland (east from South Florida Ave. @ Sonny\u2019s BBQ). The public is invited to attend the memorial service and luncheon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information about each of the fallen heroes is available at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.polkfallenheroes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.polkfallenheroes.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fraternal Order of Police Polk County Lodge #46 and the Polk County Law Enforcement Memorial Fund, Inc., will present the 37th Annual Polk County Peace Officers\u2019 Memorial Service on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNVwvMDRcL3VubmFtZWQtNDAud2VicD9maXQ9MTAyNCUyQzI0MSZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6IjIwMjUgQW5udWFsIFBvbGsgQ291bnR5IFBlYWNlIE9mZmljZXJzXHUyMDE5IE1lbW9yaWFsIFNlcnZpY2UgU2V0IGZvciBNYXkgMSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.p2QtbJ34sJWXBRj8i_WIAOIe3HiKMrGOMUPLhjF0k9QMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":55462,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/unnamed-40.webp","type":"image\/png"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[11391],"class_list":["post-55461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-2025-annual-polk-county-peace-officers-memorial-service-set-for-may-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55463,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55461\/revisions\/55463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}