{"id":12780,"date":"2025-10-01T06:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12780"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:53:04","slug":"2025-canadian-police-and-peace-officers-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12780","title":{"rendered":"2025 Canadian Police and Peace Officers Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PeaceOfficersMemorial2025-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PeaceOfficersMemorial2025-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PeaceOfficersMemorial2025-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PeaceOfficersMemorial2025-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PeaceOfficersMemorial2025-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PeaceOfficersMemorial2025.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, hundreds gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to honour police and peace officers across Canada. The Canadian Police and Peace Officers\u2019 Annual Memorial Service pays tribute to the those in law enforcement who are killed in the line of duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s also an opportunity to thank to those who work so hard to keep us safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among these inspirational men and women are park wardens, who are responsible for law enforcement in our national parks. They also happen to be members of the Union of National Employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, ten wardens were chosen to represent the Park Warden Service in Ottawa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucas Burnside<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erin Munk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sean Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gareth Short<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Sokolowski<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neil Shroeder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Martin (unable to attend)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tommaso Colucci (unable to attend)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al<s>l<\/s>ex Elliott (unable to attend)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessica Corkum (unable to attend)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/28.09.2025-CCPOM-5-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/28.09.2025-CCPOM-5-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"12793\" 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The Canadian Police and Peace Officers\u2019 Annual Memorial Service pays tribute to the those in law enforcement who are killed in the line of duty. It\u2019s also an opportunity to thank to those who work so hard to keep &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=12780\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2025 Canadian Police and Peace Officers Memorial Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12808,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions\/12808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}