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Gold-lettered plaques honoring state police troopers Branden T. Sisca and Martin F. Mack III, who were killed in the line of duty in March 2022, were unveiled during the solemn ceremony. The plaques will be added to a monument inscribed with the names of the 33 law enforcement officers with connections to the county who died in the line of duty since 1917.
Sisca was fire chief of the Trappe Fire Company and a state trooper with the Pennsylvania State Police. Sisca, 29, was struck and killed by a drunk driver on March 21, 2022, while on duty along a section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.
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