List of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officers killed in the line of duty

The following Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officers have all been killed in the line of duty. A total of ninety-four officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) are officially recognized as dying in the line of duty; it does not take into account fallen officers from the Lynwood Police Department, Compton Police Department, and a number of other law enforcement agencies which were merged into the Sheriff's Department, but does recognize those who joined the Department from the existing agencies and subsequently died.

The term "line of duty" means any action which an officer is obligated or authorized to carry out, or for which the officer is compensated by the public agency he or she serves. The term "killed in the line of duty" means a law enforcement officer has died as a direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty. This includes law enforcement officers who, while in an off-duty capacity, act in response to a law violation, or are driving to or from work. [cite web |url=http://www.nleomf.com/TheMemorial/addname.htm |title=Criteria for Adding a Name to the Memorial |accessdate=2008-04-08 |date=2004-03-17 |publisher=National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial ]

The fallen officers of the LASD are honored and remembered in a number of ways. Some sheriff stations have memorial walls to remember fallen officers assigned to that particular station, such as the one at Lakewood. There is also a memorial wall at the Memorial Park at the Sheriff's Training Academy and Regional Services Center in Whittier, California. The California Peace Officers’ Memorial is a wood and glass encased book containing the names of all fallen officers in California, and is attached to a wall oustide of the Governor of California's office in the state capital Sacramento. In 1988, the California Peace Officers’ Memorial Monument was dedicacted to the memory of the state's fallen officers. The monument is a 13 feet tall, three-figured bronze monument in California's state capital, Sacramento, representing a county sheriff of the 1880s, a state trooper of the 1930s, and a city patrolman of the 1980s. [cite web |url=http://www.camemorial.org/memhist.htm |title=History of the California Peace Officers' Memorial |accessdate=2008-04-08 |publisher=California Peace Officers’ Memorial ] In the United States capital city Washington D.C., the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, which was established in 1970, honors law enforcement officials from across the nation who have died in the line of duty. [cite web |url=http://www.nleomf.com/TheFund/fund.htm |title=About us |accessdate=2008-04-08 |publisher=National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial ]

Officers

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Notes

*note label|Van Vliet|A|A The suspects who shot and killed Deputy Van Vliet were wanted in connection with the murders of the Chief of Detectives John Rowan, of the Colorado Springs Police Department, and Policeman Luther McMahill, of the Denver Police Department.
*note label|Worland|B|B Deputy Worland was the first female officer from the LASD to be killed.
*note label|Aduato|C|C Deputy Aduato died during surgery to a knee injury received while on duty many years prior.
*note label|Helicopter|D|D Deputies McSweeney and Chester were working a multi-agency narcotics task force. They were in a helicopter and spotted a car in a canyon, and attempted to land but the rotors struck some power lines which caused the helicopter to crash. The accident also took the lives of Sergeant Richard Grijalva Romero of the Imperial County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Mark Steven Tonkin of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, Investigator Michael David Davis of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, and three California National Guard crew members operating the flight.
*note label|Henry|E|E Deputy Henry developed pulmonary fibrosis, which causes scar tissue to develop in the lungs, after he attempted to rescue a pilot of a crashed military airplane in 1984. He died over ten years later, having recently received a lung transplant.
*note label|York|F|F Deputy York was off duty when the hair salon he was in with his fiance, also a sheriff's deputy, was robbed. The salon's customers were ordered to the floor, and one of the suspects collected their wallets and purses. When the robbers found York's badge, he was immediately shot in the back of the head. He died two days later.
*note label|Tutino|G|G Deputy Tutino was a passenger on one of the train involved in the Glendale train crash. He was off duty and heading into work.
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References

;General
*cite web |url=http://www.odmp.org/agency/2220-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department-california |title=Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles, CA |accessdate=2008-04-11 |work=The Officer Down Memorial Page
*cite web |url=http://www.lasd.org/aboutlasd/memorial/memorial1.html |title=LASD – In Memory |accessdate=2008-04-11 |work=Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
*cite web |url=http://www.camemorial.org/index.html |title=The California Peace Officers' Memorial Foundation |accessdate=2008-04-11 |work=

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ee also

* List of Los Angeles Police Department officers killed in the line of duty

External links

* [http://www.lasd.org/ Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department website]