The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, DC

"Carved on these walls is the story of America, of a continuing quest to preserve both democracy and decency, and to protect a national treasure that we call the American dream." —President G.H.W. Bush

Planit Meetings is honored to be endorsed by NLEOMF – the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Found, and proud to be working with them on hotel accommodations for National Police Week 2012.

 The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, across from the National Building Museum, near the courts buildings at Judiciary Square, is one of the most beautiful memorials in Washington, DC.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial,  a 3-acre site at Judiciary Square, near the US Capitol, dedicated on October 15, 1991, is our nation’s monument to fallen law enforcement officers. The beautiful memorial, lush with plants, trees, flowers, honors local, state and federal law enforcement officers, who died in the line of duty, protecting our nation’s people. 

The Memorial’s primary plaza features the Memorial Fund log: blue shield with a red rose draped across it.

Carved on the two curving 304 foot long marble walls of the memorial,  on the pathways of remembrance,  are the more than 19,298 names of offices who died in the line of duty, dating back to the first known death in 1791. Each of the pathway entrances has statuary groups of lions protecting their cubs, symbolizing the protective role of law enforcement officers, conveying strength, and courage.  New names of fallen officers are added to the monument every spring, in conjunction with National Police Week.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund was established by former US Representative Mario Biaggi, a NYPD officer, wounded in the line of duty more than 10 times, before retiring in 1965, Senator Claiborne Pell, Suffolk County police detective Donald Guilfoil and others. They initiated the legislation that was passed in 1984, resulting in the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. They were soon joined by more than sixteen national law enforcement organizations, who worked together to find the site, design and build the Washington, DC memorial.

NLEOMF’s mission, in part through the Memorial and the adjacent museum,  is to increase public awareness, appreciation and support for the law enforcement profession, by recording and honoring the service and sacrifice of our law enforcement officers.  Although the memorial is on federal land, private funds, and not tax dollars are responsible for the building and maintaining of the monument. (In 1996, a federal law was passed creating a Memorial Maintenance Fund, managed by the Department of the Interior, and funded, in part, by the selling of of NLEOM Commemorative Silver Dollars issued by the US Mint. The Memorial and the adjacent National Law Enforcement Museum are both projects of the NLEOMF, a 501(c) 3.)

 For questions about hotel accommodations for National Police Week, please don't hesitate to contact Kevin Elder (kelder@planitmeetings.com) or Susan Pasko (susan@planitmeetings.com).