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Fallen police officers in North Carolina and across America will be remembered during National Police Week, which runs from May 9-15 in 2021. (Shutterstock)
NORTH CAROLINA The biggest effect the coronavirus pandemic had on National Police Week isn t that activities in North Carolina and elsewhere have been postponed, but the number of police officers whose lives and careers were cut short by the virus.
While their names won t be read at the National Police Officers Memorial Service until its Oct. 16 rescheduled date, they will be honored virtually during National Police Week from May 9-16 this year.
The coronavirus has been cited for three police officer line of duty deaths in North Carolina in 2021, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. Nationally, 63 of the 119 police line of duty deaths in 2021 as of May 4, just under 53 percent, have been due to the virus.