National Police Week: 20th Annual Memorial Service to be held by the Atlanta Police Department

The Atlanta Police Department will hold its 20th Annual Memorial Service on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 11:00am in the Atrium at City Hall 55 Trinity Ave.

 This year’s service is dedicated to Investigator Sherry Elizabeth Lyons Williams, the only Atlanta female police officer killed in the line of duty. Investigator Lyons-Williams was shot and killed in 2001 while she and her narcotics team executed a search warrant. She had been employed with the Atlanta Police Department for 13 years.

The memorial speaker will be Ambassador Andrew Young.  Ambassador Young’s humanitarian efforts and influence have spanned the globe.  From his beginnings as an ordained minister and top aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement to his current position as founding principal and chair of GoodWorks International, an organization that embraces his long-held mission of facilitating economic development in the Caribbean and Africa.

While mayor of the City of Atlanta for two terms, Young helped attract 1100 new businesses and 70 billion dollars in private investments, and created one million new jobs. His leadership helped the City to earn the international reputation it holds today.

The public is welcomed to be a part of the memorial services.

The Atlanta Police Department is the largest Law Enforcement Agency in the state of Georgia, as a result of that it also has the highest number of officers killed in the line of duty, 78.  Our memorial service pays tribute to those officers and their families.