Order Your ODMP Memorial Baton

ODMP Memorial Batons are carefully hand-crafted to-order from the finest Mexican Cocobolo wood available on the world market. Known for its beauty, tradition and rarity, each Cocobolo blank is handpicked for both color and figure. Batons are approximately 23.75" long and 1.3" in diameter. Heat branded, each hand-made baton features the officer's initials and last name (16 character max) and end of watch date on the grip, ODMP logo on the grip end, and is provided with a custom "ODMP Memorial Blue" top-grain leather lanyard. Finished with two-coats of hand-rubbed shellac, wax, and oil for a smooth, high-gloss finish, each baton is available in Select and Premier grades.

The accompany display is engraved with the officer's name, agency, and end of watch date. ODMP Memorial Batons are ideal for displaying in your department or to be presented to a friend or loved one of a fallen hero.

Each baton is hand-made by Drew MacDonald, a medically retired police officer, and owner of SheepDog Woodworks.

ODMP-exclusive blue leather lanyard are affixed to all ODMP Memorial Batons.

Each baton's grip is heat branded with your officer's name and EOW.

Only the best and most beautiful Mexican Cocobolo wood is selected for the Memorial Batons.

The ODMP logo is branded onto the base of each baton.

From Blank to Baton: The making of an ODMP Memorial Baton:

About SheepDog Woodworks
SheepDog Woodworks owner/operator Drew MacDonald joined the rank and file of a large Washington, DC, metro area police department in 1999. He established himself early in his career as being a tenacious student of the profession. He was highly regarded among peers and superiors, and was routinely described as "the one you wanted with you on the big one" - always first through the door as both an officer and supervisor.

Drew was forced to medically retire in 2009 as the result of a duty-related injury incurred when he was the first officer on scene following one of the "DC Sniper" shootings in 2002.

SheepDog Woodworks produces only the finest hand-crafted wood products for the law enforcement community. Visit SheepDogWoodworks.com for a complete line of products.

Blue Knights NC XIII Ride for ODMP and Wounded Warriors

The ODMP would like to recognize the members of Blue Knights NC Chapter XIII for their support!

Members of NC Chapter XIII recently held a charity motorcycle ride that doubled as a fundraiser for the Officer Down Memorial Page and the Wounded Warriors Project, raising more than $4,000 for the two organizations.

Lt. Al Ferguson, of the High Point (NC) Police Department, represented the ODMP in accepting the check in front of the Cumberland County Fallen Officers Memorial (the ODMP helped with researching the cases of a few of the deputies and officers now honored on the memorial).

(L-R): Chaplain Bill McCoy, Tom Sisk, Director (BK NC XIII) Maurice Parker, Lt. Al Ferguson, President (BK NC XIII) Mike Brown

If your organization would like to hold a similar fundraiser, please contact ODMP's Executive Director Chris Cosgriff.

Attention Patch Collectors: We Need Your Help!

Get an ODMP patch by helping us obtain missing patches

The ODMP is the most comprehensive memorial for law enforcement officers, preserving the stories of their lives and the history of the agencies they served.

A total of 6,117 different agencies have suffered at least one line of duty death. Displaying a patch on an officer's memorial not only honors the fallen officer, but is also an honor to all other members of that department.

Over the past few years we've been fortunate enough to have received patches or suitable images to display alongside almost every single officer. Unfortunately, however, we're still missing patches from 126 agencies. Most of these agencies are small, rural agencies or no longer exist.

We need your help to fill in the gaps. I'm asking all police patch collectors to check their collections for the patches we need. If you have one, I ask that you send us a high-resolution scanned image so it can be added to the proper memorial.

Click here to view an up-to-date list of every patch that is missing

As an incentive, we'll send an ODMP patch to anyone who sends us a useable patch image of any patch included on the list. Please follow these guidelines for scanning patches:

• Only scans taken with flatbed scanners can be used. Digital photographs CANNOT be used
• Scan the patch at a resolution of at least 300 dpi
• Do not attempt to crop, touch up, or otherwise edit the patch image. Send us the original, full size, high resolution image
• Email the image to [email protected] with a note about its origin and your address so we can send you the ODMP patch

If you have knowledge that any agency included on the list never wore a patch, and the agency no longer exists, please email us with details at [email protected].

Thank you in advance for your assistance. Together, we can ensure every officer is remembered.