Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest in Peace Officer Robert Kozminski...
Our thoughts and Prayers will be with your family and friends....

Joyce
Sister of Officer John P Harris EOW 8/19/1994

July 8, 2007

I am very sorry for the loss of this police officer. I would like to extend my sympathy to his family. I was also the victim of domestic assault in my previous marriage. We take our police force for granted. This hero gave his life to protect someone`in their time of need. I hope the police department will find a special way to honor his memory.

Mrs Gordon (Jan) Thompson II
Citizen

July 8, 2007

ITT-Tech Remebers a hero. To the family and officers, you are in our prayers. "Lets keep the Peace!"

ITT-TECH CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENTS

July 8, 2007

The wound will heal with time, but the scar remains forever so he is never forgotten.

Amanda Inzer
Wife of Deputy Alan Inzer EOW 01/25/07

July 8, 2007

My thoughts and prayers go out to your family. You took the high road and will always be remebered for it. God bless you my brother in Blue!

Officer Sean Taylor
Lansing Township Police

July 8, 2007

From all the students at ITT-Tech Criminal Justice school and club. We have some officers from Grand Rapids Police Department teaching us and we are proud to have them. We are so very sorry and we put the family in our prayers as well as the GRPD family. We are just students right now but we will also be working right along with you some day and we will be proud to do it. "Lets keep the peace!"

ITT-TECH CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDENTS

July 8, 2007

My deepest sympathy to the family, friends and co-workers of Officer Kozminski. Rest in peace, sir, thank you for your dedication and sacrifice. You will never be forgotten.

Linda Lamm - LEO wife and sister of
Jay Balchunas EOW 11.05.04

July 8, 2007

My thoughts and prayers goes out to the family of Officer Kozminski. Rest in peace my brother in blue and God Speed.

PSO Nicole Caroffino
KDPS

July 8, 2007

Our prayers and thoughts are with the family and the fellow
officers.
Rest in peace
Chief John Roelandts (retired)
Deborah Roelandts (911 retired)
Oconomowoc Wisconsin

Chief John Roelandts (retired)
Town of Oconomowoc

July 8, 2007

On behalf of the entire Security Services Dept. at Davenport University's Grand Rapids Campuses, we cannot begin to imagine the grief and sorrow of the GRPD family and Officer Kozminski's family and friends. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of you during the solemn time. May Officer Kozminski rest in peace, knowing her served the people of Grand Rapids as a GRPD officer.

Director Eric Patterson
Davenport University Security Services

July 8, 2007

Please accept my deepest sympathy in the death of Police Officer Robert Kozminski. As a chaplain and victim advocate for the Ionia County Sheriff's Department, and as the Men's Program Supervisor for Mel Trotter Ministries, I witness daily the faithful service of the men and women of law enforcement to the peoples of their community. To the family of this fallen officer: you are in my prayers, and you have my eternal gratitude for his work as a servant of God. May God bless and be with you.

Paul D. Carmichael, Men's Program Superv
Mel Trotter Ministries

July 8, 2007

Rest In Peace.

#2959
U.S. Marshals

July 8, 2007

Thank You, Officer Kozminski, for your Ultimate Sacrifice! God Bless Your Family!

Laura
Spouse of DPD Officer

July 8, 2007

OFFICER KOZMINSKI-THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND I PRAY FOR PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. OFFICERS LIKE YOU MAKE ME PROUD TO BE A POLICE OFFICER EVERYDAY. YOU ARE A HERO TO ME AND MANY OTHERS. REST IN PEACE MY BROTHER. WE WILL TAKE YOUR SHIFT FROM HERE.

SERGEANT TRAVIS T. FOREMAN
WAVELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT
WAVELAND, MISSISSIPPI

SERGEANT TRAVIS T. FOREMAN
WAVELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT

July 8, 2007

Rest in peace my brother you will be missed. Your family, friends and co-workers are in my prayers.

Deputy Sheriff Mosco
Washington County Pennsylvania

July 8, 2007

Rest in peace my brother

OFFICER STEPFARNE GRAY
BIRMINGHAM POLCE DEPARTMENT

July 8, 2007

May God Bless You and Your loved ones. He answered the call and gave us his all.
And a part of America died.

Debra Jeffery EMT

July 8, 2007

May GOD be with all who were close to Officer Kozminski, and the entire Grand Rapids Police Department. You gave given the ultimate sacrifice Robert, and now will patrol the Heavens above use. To the family of Officer Kozminski we as a law enforcement family are grieving along side of you. Blessed are the peace keepers, he is now safe with the Lord.

GOD BLESS
Deputy John S. Wilson

Deputy John S. Wilson
Clare County Sheriff Department

July 8, 2007

My deepest sympathy goes out to the family, friends and fellow officers of Officer Kozminski. He is proof that officers are true heros who put themselves in the line of danger to assist someone in need on every watch. It's so sad to lose one of our protectors. My prayers go to you all at this sad, sad time.

Loretta Moshier
Dir. Of Volunteer Services, City of Santaquin.UT

July 8, 2007

Your family and the GRPD are in our prayers. "Blessed are the peacekeepers".

Trooper
Michigan State Police

July 8, 2007

Robert, we will learn the lessons of your tragic death as we carry on your work in your image all over the world. Never in vain, never forgotton. With great respect - God speed brother.

Senior Constable Robbie Colcott
Victoria Police, Australia

July 8, 2007

When God made Police Officers.......

When the Lord was creating police officers, he was into his sixth day of overtime when an angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling on this one?"

And the Lord said, "Have you read the spec on this order?"

"A police 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 is uniform."

"He has 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."

"He has to be in top phyiscal condition at all times, running on black coffee and half-eaten meals. And he has to have six pairs of hands."

The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands...no way."

"Its not the hands that are causing me problems, "said the Lord, "its the three pairs of eyes an officer has to have."

"Thats 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 he already knows and wishes he'd taken the accounting job.) Another pair in the side of his head for his partners' safety. And another pair of eyes here in the front that that can look reassuring at a bleeding victim and say, "You'll be all right ma'am, when he knows it isn't so."

"Lord,"said the angel, touching his sleeve, "rest and work on this 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 a civil service paycheck."

The angel circled the model of the police office very slowly, Can it think?" she asked.

"You bet." said the Lord. "It can tell you the 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 it takes five learned judges to debate the legality of the stop...and still keeps its sense of humor.

"This officer also has phenomenal personal control. He can deal with crime scenes painted in hell, coax a confession from a child abuser, comfort a murder vicitm's family, and then read in the daily paper how law enforcement isn't sensative to the rights of criminal suspects."

Finally, the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the police officer. "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model."

"Thats not a leak," said the Lord, "its a tear."

"What's the tear for?" asked the angel.

"Its for bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny piece of cloth called the American flag, for justice."

"You're a genius," said the angel.

The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," he said.

Bob-I'll miss you coming in from time to time. Keep watching over everyone. Let them take the watch from here on out.

Kay
Security at Saint Mary's Hospital

July 8, 2007

My heart & prayers go out to you. Rest Easy.

Cindy, Arkansas
sister of slain Officer Randy Basnett, eow 9/24/76

July 8, 2007

Koz-
I cannot describe the feeling I had when I got the phone call from the police department this morning telling me that you were gone. My heart goes out to your daughter, parents, and siblings. While I didn't know you that well I will never forget seeing your smiling face around the building. Your sacrifice will never be forgotten by your brothers and sisters at GRPD. Rest in peace my brother and may God grant your family, the department, and the community the strength to get through this tough time and continue on in your memory. May God bless you!

GRPD Detective
Grand Rapids Police Department

July 8, 2007

Rest in Peace, Officer Kozminski. You will NEVER be forgotten. We thank you for your Service, Sir.

Sr. Trooper Trey Pellizzari
Texas Dept of Public Safety/Commercial Vehicle Enforcement--Rockwall

July 8, 2007