National Police Week 2022

May 15 - May 21, 2022

During National Police Week, law enforcement departments all over the United States, including those in Johnston County and our State, will participate in events to pay homage to those who gave their lives in the line of duty.

Read more about this important event here.

Watch FOP's video entitled It's All About the White Chairs

How It Began

A proclamation designating May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the week in which that date fall as Police Week, was a proclamation signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962. In 1982, a Memorial Service event consisting of 120 survivors and law enforcement supporters took place in Senate Park.

Over decades, National Police Week has grown to a week-long series of events which brings thousands of survivors and officers together in our Nation’s Capital each year to offer each other support while honoring and remembering their fallen.