| In 1974, the FAA Police, which later became the MWAA Police was the first airport agency to lose an officer in the line of duty. |
Do you consider airport or hospital police if they are killed in the line of duty?No sooner had I finished reading the question then I was shooed away from the no waiting area by a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) PD police officer.
The answer to the above question is "yes." Any law enforcement officer in America who is killed in the line of duty is eligible to be included on the Officer Down Memorial Page. It doesn't matter if they work for a municipal, state, federal, or specialized agency: Airports, hospitals, harbors, railroads, etc. To the ODMP, a police officer is a police officer is a police officer. We make no distinction on a police officer's eligibility based on the type of agency they work for.
Like the PSOB program, Concerns of Police Survivors, the National Memorial, and other national organizations, the ODMP does have a criteria for inclusion that we adhere to when making determinations on when a potential line of duty death is eligible, but that mostly revolves around the circumstance of the death rather than the type of agency (with very few exceptions). To make a long story short, if a law enforcement officer has some sort of arrest authority and is killed/dies as a result of having that authority then he/she will probably be eligible to be included on the ODMP.
With that, I'd like to specifically honor those airport and hospital police officers who have been killed in the line of duty:
Airport Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
| Private William Edward Connor | United States Department of Transportation - Federal Aviation Administration Police, US | 1974-01-12 |
| Officer George Neal Ramsburg | Maryland Aviation Administration Police Department, MD | 1974-02-22 |
| Police Officer Garland L. Garrison | Will Rogers Airport Police Department, OK | 1979-09-19 |
| Officer James Douglas Bossen | Indianapolis International Airport Police Department, IN | 1982-02-05 |
| Officer William Moss | Houston Airport Police Department, TX | 1983-09-12 |
| Officer Kenneth Stanley Baldwin | Okaloosa County Airport Police Department, FL | 1987-09-11 |
| Officer Michael Capparelli | Chicago Department of Aviation Police, IL | 1992-03-27 |
| Corporal Richard David Barreda | Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport Police Department, TX | 1997-02-14 |
| Officer John Michael Richardson | Nashville International Airport Police, TN | 1999-04-29 |
| Chief of Safety John Ross Juneau | Southwest Georgia Regional Airport Police Department, GA | 2003-05-02 |
| Sergeant Michael Allen Scarbrough | Wayne County Airport Authority Police Department, MI | 2005-02-09 |
| Police Officer Tommy Edward Scott | Los Angeles World Airports Police Department, CA | 2005-04-29 |
Hospital Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty
| Quarantine Guard Ira Trueman Hill | United States Department of Health and Human Services - Public Health Service, US | 1919-06-01 |
| Police Officer Marvin C. Bland | United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police, US | 1985-09-06 |
| Police Officer Mark S. Decker | United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police, US | 1986-01-31 |
| Police Officer Leonard B. Wilcox | United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police, US | 1986-01-31 |
| Police Officer Ronald Hearn | United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police, US | 1988-07-25 |
| Officer Harry Cantave | New York City Health and Hospital Police Department, NY | 1990-08-22 |
| Police Officer Garry A. Ross | United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police, US | 1990-12-24 |
| Captain James Rodriguez | New York City Health and Hospital Police Department, NY | 1992-03-19 |
| Police Officer Horst Harold Woods | United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police, US | 1996-01-10 |
| Sergeant James C. Low | New York City Health and Hospital Police Department, NY | 1999-02-01 |
| Police Officer Jose Oscar Rodriguez-Reyes | United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police, US | 2002-04-24 |
| Officer Monte Ruby | CoxHealth Department of Public Safety, MO | 2008-08-06 |
Did we fail to list any officers in the lists above? If so, fill out the comment form below with their names and agencies.
