Crime & Safety
Police Run in Memory of Killed Colleagues
Hundreds of San Diego County law enforcement officers completed a 2.5 mile run in Carlsbad on Saturday in solidarity for officers killed in the line of duty.
Some 200 San Diego County law enforcement officers took part Saturday in a memorial run to honor colleagues killed in the line of duty. They ran along a 2.5-mile stretch of Carlsbad Boulevard as a group to symbolize unity, said Fiona Everett, senior management analyst for the .
The , held in conjunction with California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and National Peace Officers' Week began at 9 a.m. at
Last year three officers from San Diego County were killed in the line of duty, Everett said, and two California cops were killed this year.
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San Diego police Officer Christopher Wilson was shot and killed Oct. 28, 2010, while assisting probation officers on a compliance check. Sheriff's Deputy Ken Collier was killed in a crash Feb. 28, 2010, while in pursuit on State Route 52. And San Diego County-based California Highway Patrol Officer Daniel Benavides was killed May 7, 2010, in plane crash while on patrol.
Killed this year were a CHP officer from Mendocino County and a Cathedral City police officer.
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