Officer Down Memorial Page

This Sunday (7/15/07) is the local Sheriff's Offices'commemoration of the year 1959. In that year, LCPD officer Edwin "Ted" Edwards was killed in a traffic accident while transporting juvenile prisoners.

CCSO Chief Deputy Alma Sorensen and our officer Edwards were transporting some kids to Ogden when one of them grabbed for Sorensen's gun and the car drove into the path of an oncoming vehicle. Both officers and two of the four kids were killed that August 27, 1959 on Highway 91, seven miles north of Ogden.

Deputy Sorensen had asked his officer friend and co-worker Ted to go to Ogden with him on the prisoner transport. Unfortunately, back then the City of Logan held the position that Edwards was "off-duty" and ineligible for benefits or death benefit compensation. Rumor has it that the Edwards family has never forgiven Logan for this.

Nonetheless, Edwin "Ted" Edwards died in the line of duty and we will never forget. I have no contact information for the Edwards family. If you know of someone who may be able to help, please let me know. I would welcome the opportunity to offer our respect to this man's family.

LCPD officers will join me Sunday at the Cache County Sheriff's Office flag pole at 2:00 p.m. as we pay tribute to a man who was willing to go with his co-worker on a road trip to Ogden and never made it home.

Chief Russ Roper
Logan City Police Department
July 11, 2007

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