Officer Down Memorial Page

DET MURPHY, YOU HAVE SERVED WELL. A HERO FOR SURE. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY YOU REST IN PEACE.

CHIEF RONNIE WATFORD-RET.
JEFFERSON POLICE DEPT,SC
September 19, 2010

Detective Murphy,

In reading how you died, I was struck by the last comments. If when my watch is done, I could be remember so highly.

God Bless you and your service.

Corporal Michael Lowry
University of Colorado Police Department
January 28, 2009

Thank you Detective Murphy for your sacrifice and God bless you. You will not be forgotten.

Officer Pete Van Gessel #114
Joliet Police Department
April 1, 2006

Not a day goes by where i dont wake up and hope to be half the man that you were. Everytime i read through the reflection or look at your picture, it reminds me i have a family name to live up to.

Mark Murphy, Cadet
Joliet PD
July 25, 2005

You would be proud to know that your great-grandson Mark was recently hired as a Police Cadet for the Joliet PD. He follows now only in your footsteps, but that of your grandson Robert, who was a Patrol officer here, but more recently has been employed as a Sergeant with the Will County Forest PReserve PD.

Sergeant Robert Mau
PD Joliet IL
July 23, 2005

Not a day goes by that I don't walk by the JPD memorial and look at your picture and badge and think of you and all the other officers who lost their lives while employed at JPD. Please look down on us all and help us do our best in our chosen profession.
JR

Sgt. Robert Mau Sr. #54
Joliet IL PD
January 28, 2005