Fallen Baltimore Officer Honored In National Police Week

WASHINGTON, DC — The names of nearly 200 local, state and federal police officers and agents who died in the line of duty in 2017 will be read Tuesday in the 37th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service. The list includes one police officer from Baltimore: Detective Sean Suiter.

The ceremony in Washington, D.C., is part of a week full of activities for National Police Week, which began Sunday and continues through Saturday, May 19. President John F. Kennedy designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day in 1962 and the week containing that day as Police Week.

Tuesday’s two-hour commemoration begins at 11 a.m. near the west front of the U.S. Capitol. It includes both a wreath-laying ceremony and a memorial service.

Two officers from Maryland will be memorialized at the 2018 ceremony:

• Detective Sean Suiter, 43, was shot on Nov. 15, 2017, while following up on a triple homicide in west Baltimore. He died the next day.
• Deputy Chief Fire Marshal Sander Benjamin Cohen, 33, died on I-270 when he was hit by a vehicle on Dec. 8, 2017.

Between 25,000 and 40,000 people from police departments across the country and agencies around the world take part in National Police Week activities in Washington, D.C.

Pictured, the Baltimore Police Department welcomed officers from the U.S. and Canada who stopped in Baltimore on May 13 as part of the Law Enforcement Memorial Run. More than 160 police officers were taking part in the run from Philadelphia to Washington, which honors the police officers who have died in the line of duty. Photo courtesy of the Baltimore Police Department.