Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

The Florida Police Chiefs Association would like to express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Deputy Ethan Collins, and the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this time of great sadness. Please take comfort in knowing that your extended law enforcement family grieves with you. Deputy Collins, we thank you for your service. You will not be forgotten.

Members and Staff
Florida Police Chiefs Association

January 5, 2006

My condolences go out to the family of Deputy Ethan Collins and the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office. I hope they continue to remember this officer's bravery and courage, and the legacy in which he left. Deputy Collins your shift is over now, we will take it from here. Rest in peace, brother...

Deputy James E. Bradford Jr.
Bradley County Sheriff Department

January 5, 2006

Deepest sympathies to Dep. Collins family, friends, and the men and women of the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office during this most difficult time.

Deputy Brian Smith
Union County Sheriff's Office

January 5, 2006

GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

January 5, 2006

“When God made Peace Officers….”

When the lord was creating Peace Officers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, “You’re doing a lot of fiddling around on this one.”

And the Lord said, Have you read the spec on this order? A Peace Officer has to be able to run five miles through alleys in the dark, scale walls, enter homes the health inspector wouldn’t touch, and not wrinkle their uniform.

They have to be able to sit in an undercover car all day on a stakeout, cover a homicide scene that night, canvass the neighborhood for witnesses, and testify in court the next day.

They have to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and half- eaten meals. And they have to have six pairs of hands.

The angel shook her head slowly and said, “Six pairs of hands….No Way.”

“It’s not the hands that are causing me the problems,” said the Lord, “It’s the three pairs of eyes an officer has to have.”

That’s on the standard model? asked the angel.

The Lord nodded. One pair that sees through a bulge in a pocket before he asks, “May I see what’s in there sir?” (When they already know and wishes they had taken that accounting job.) Another pair here in the side of their head for their partners’ safety. And another pair of eyes here in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say, “ You’ll be alright ma’am, when they know it isn’t so.”

“Lord,” said the angel, touching his sleeve,” rest and work tomorrow.”

“I can’t,” said the Lord, “I already have a model that can talk a 250 pound drunk into a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on civil service paycheck.”

The angel circled the model of the Peace Officer very slowly, “Can it think?” she asked.

“You bet,” said the Lord, “It can tell you elements of a hundred crimes, recite Miranda warnings in it’s sleep; detain, investigate, search, and arrest a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five judges to debate the legality of the stop…and still it keeps it’s sense of humor.

This officer also has phenomenal personal control. They can deal with crime scenes painted in HELL, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder victim’s family’ and then read in the daily paper how Law Enforcement isn’t sensitive to the rights of criminal suspects.

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the Peace Officer. “There’s a leak,” she pronounced. “I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model.”

“That’s not a leak,” said the Lord, “It’s a tear.”

“What’s the tear for?” asked the angel.

“It’s for bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, and for justice.”

“You’re a genius,” said the angel.

The Lord looked sober. “I didn’t put it there,” he said.


Anonymous

Senior Instructor
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

January 5, 2006

Our thoughts and prayers go out to this fine officers family and also his family in blue. To live on in the hearts of others is to not die at all.
Godspeed brother in blue.

Former Correctional Corporal
Franklin County Regional Jail

January 5, 2006

May God touch your family and help them through this time in their life. Thank you for your service from all of us in blue.

Ptl. Eckelberry

Ptl. Morgan Eckelberry
West Lafayette Police Department

January 5, 2006

Another hero gone! Ethan, you will be missed.

Ofc. Mark Lang #90
Columbus Division of Police (former FCSO)

January 5, 2006

Bless you brother for your service, My prayers are with your family.

Chaplain R. Webb
Owensboro PD

January 5, 2006

My thoughts are with the family and I will hold you in my prayers to remain strong.

January 5, 2006

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends Of Deputy Ethan Collins, his good deeds to his community and country will always be remembered. May God bless you.

Chief Ferrell J. Stewart
Cooter, MO Police Department

January 5, 2006

No amount of words from any of us can ease your grief and suffering at the lost of your husband, father and bother officer. But remain strong in your faith and know god as a plan for us all. Take comforted in knowing you will see Ethan again as we walk the streets of heaven. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. All the law enforcement community across the country feels you’re lost as well, we to have lost a bother in the fight. So it’s with a heavy heart we send our deepest sympathy to your family and the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office Ohio. Rest in peace sir, you may be gone but know you will never be forgotten.

Deputy
Chesterfield Sheriff’s Office Va.

January 5, 2006

D.S. Collins..you - your family - friends & co-workers are in my thoughts & prayers during this difficult time..watch over them & your fellow brothers/sisters in blue..YOU ARE GONE..BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN..REST IN PEACE & WITH EASE BLUE ANGEL!!

girlfriend of a dpd
detroit, mi

January 5, 2006

My heart and prayers are with the family, friends and coworkers of Deputy Collins. May God be with you all in this terrible time of loss. A true HERO who will not be forgotten.

Deb Azure
Mother of Deputy Renee Danell Azure
EOW 08/06/02

January 5, 2006

God Speed, Brother.

P.O. K.Murphy
Union PD, NJ

January 5, 2006

Having been married to a police officer myself I know the sacrifice the families have to make on a daily basis, now my heart goes out to Ethan's family they have made the ultimate sacrifice. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the family, friends, and (brothers) who are suffering this loss.

sad friend of many officers
chillicothe, oh

January 5, 2006

I wish to offer my sympathy to the family and friends of Deputy Collins.
Thank you Sir for your service to the
Fairfield County Sheriff's Office. Rest In Peace.

Police Mom
Missouri

January 5, 2006

You will never be forgotten by your brothers in BLUE!! R I P your watch is over we will take it from here. Your brothers in Michigan!!!

Ofc. J. Dixon
Brownstown Police Dept., MI

January 5, 2006

The sorrow is great, that today my brother, my friend has gone home. We shared many jokes and stories. Our shift, our office is at a loss. Myself and the rest of your brothers and sisters try to comfort each other, but there is no stopping the heartache we feel. To your wife,your parents and your brother, your son and daughter...WE ARE HERE FOR YOU. I will miss those conversations in roll call we used to have. May God and his angels watch over all who are in mourn over your passing. God has embraced you and has welcomed you home. Goodbye U#268, you will be missed

Deputy Frank "Farva" Diamond #321
Fairfield Co. S.O.

January 5, 2006

REST IN PEACE HERO. MY DEEPEST SYMPATHIES TO THE FRIENDS, FAMILY AND THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

PO II RT FLYNN
LYNCHBURG PD, VA

January 5, 2006

God bless you brother, rest in peace with our brother Officer Hurst. Sadly missed but never forgotten!

January 5, 2006

Our prayers will be with Deputy Collins, his family, and the Fairfield County Sheriffs Department. May God Bless Ethan Collins.

Ofc. Robert Sagle #2254
Columbus Ohio Division of Police

January 5, 2006

Deputy Collins may you rest in peace and may the good Lord take care of your family in this time of despair! Thank you for your service and dedication to making sure your fellow officer/deputies were safe.

Peace be with you!

Police Officer Larry Waltermyer
Columbus Police

January 5, 2006

To the family, friends and co-workers of Dep. Collins, our deepest regret and sorrows for your loss, Deputy Collins will never be forgotten! Rest in peace brother

Ofc. Dan Jones #2079 (Med. Ret)
Columbus Ohio Division of Police

January 4, 2006

Rest in peace blue angel! You will never be forgotten....

Officer
Tennessee

January 4, 2006