Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest in peace, brother. May God be with the family of Sergeant Bergeron during this time of mourning. We've got the watch from here.

BL Mitchell, Patrol
FCPD, VA

May 3, 2010

Thank you for your service, your courage and now, your sacrifice. May God be with your family, friends and fellow LEO's. You will always be a HERO and you will never be forgotten. God Bless and Godspeed.

Lisa
GEORGIA CIVILIAN

May 3, 2010

Sergeant Bergeron, Thank you for your 26 years of service and for making the ultimate sacrifice. Your Wife, Daughters and the rest of your friends, family and the Maplewood P.D. will remain in my thoughts and prayers.

Rest in peace Sergeant

J Clendening #407
Glades County Sheriff's Office (FL)

May 3, 2010

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

K-9 Officer Tom Summerville Jr
Eutaw Police Department

May 3, 2010

My prayers and condolences to your family, friends, and co-workers. RIP brother.

PO BEST - 10000
LVMPD

May 3, 2010

May God give you and your family comfort and may you rest in peace. To a fellow public servant, thank you for your service and your sacrifice.

FCSN Griffin Kirsch
Naval Station Great Lakes

FCSN Griffin Kirsch
United States Navy

May 3, 2010

Sgt Bergeron, may you rest in peace. You'll never be forgotten.

Sgt Richard Eckert
Town of Chester Police Department

May 3, 2010

Thank you for your service. May you rest in Peace and may God watch over you and your family. You will never be forgotten.

RETIRED DETECTIVE FRANK DEMARCO
NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT

May 3, 2010

Rest in Peace my Brother, God Bless you, your Family and your Dept.

OFFICER BOB SWOPE #5609
OLMSTED FALLS POLICE DEPT.OHIO

May 3, 2010

GOD SPEED BROTHER SEE YOU ON THE HIGH SIDE

Sgt. Shane Parrott
Gordon County Sheriffs Office GA

May 3, 2010

To the family, friends, and co-workers of Sgt. Bergeron,

Please accept the most heartfelt condolences from the men and women of the United States Border Patrol, Douglas, AZ station.

We will not forget Sergeant Bergeron, and will continue to fight evil for a better world. When one of us falls, all of us stumble, but we carry on in honor and memory of the fallen.

Sergeant, Code-4. Rest in Peace, sir. We have it from here.

Douglas Station
United States Border Patrol

May 3, 2010

My condolences to your family and co-workers. RIP brother. May God Bless, and keep your family in his care

Detective Stewart
LAPD

May 3, 2010

In Honor of your Sacrifice and for your family and friends, I salute you as a HERO!

"The Badge"

He starts his shift each day
To respond to calls unknown.
He drives a marked patrol car.
A police officer he is known.

He's paid by the citizens' taxes
To make it safe on the streets.
But he usually has a second job
'Cause a waitress has his salary beat.

Now he doesn't know a holiday
'Cause he works all year round.
And when Thanksgiving and Christmas finally arrive
At his home he cannot be found.

He's cursed and assaulted often,
The one whos blood runs blue.
He seldom ever gets a thanks,
To some he's just a fool.

His friends are always other cops
'Cause people just don't understand
That underneath his badge and gun,
He's just another man.

He knows there might not be a tomorrow
In this world of drugs and crime.
And he gets so mad at the court system
'Cause the crooks don't get any time.

And each day when he leaves for work,
He prays to God above.
Please bring me home after my shift
So I can see the ones I love.

But tonight he stops a speeding car,
He's alone down this ole' highway.
It's just a little traffic infraction.
He does it everyday.

Well, he walks up to the driver's window,
And his badge is shining bright.
He asked the guy for a driver's license,
When a shot rang through the night.

Yes, the bullet hit its mark,
Striking the officer in the chest.
But the Department's budget didn't buy
Each officer a bullet-proof vest.

So he lay on the ground bleeding.
His blood wasn't blue - His blood was red.
And briefly he thought of his loved ones
'Cause in a moment the officer was dead.

In the news they told the story
Of how this officer had died.
And some who listened cared less,
But those who loved him cried.

Well, they buried him in uniform
With his badge pinned on his chest.
He even had his revolver,
He died doing his best.

Written By:
David L. Bell

Richland County Sheriff's Department
Columbia, South Carolina
Used with Special Permission of the Author
Copyright © 1993 - All Rights Reserved
and may not be duplicated without permission

Investigator David L Bell
Richland County Sheriff's Dept., Columbia, SC

May 3, 2010

Family, Fellow Officers, Friends-this breaks my heart. Another innocent protector's life taken needlessly. May God somehow comfort you all and wrap yourself in the knowledge that this hero was taken too soon, but leaves you all with love and the knowledge he will be watching over you all. It takes quite a person to put on a badge daily to protect the innocent. You walked with a hero. God Bless all who wear the badge.

Mom of CO Springs Officer
Colorado Springs Police Department

May 3, 2010

My thoughts and prayers are with those friends and family members that are left behind and cannot follow. Rest in peace my brother in blue...we will take it from here.

PFC Adam F Laser
Westminster City Police Department

May 3, 2010

RIP Brother, you will not be forgotten.

Anonymous

May 3, 2010

My heart and prayers are with the Bergeron family, friends and coworkers of this true hero, God has called him home to help patrol the streets of heaven. Thank you Sgt. for your many years of service and protection.

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

Anonymous

May 3, 2010

reat in peace from family of Det William Rolniak jr Eow 2-4-04

Anonymous

May 3, 2010

RIP Sergeant Bergeron.............Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of god.

Officer Pete Zajac
Farmington PD

May 3, 2010

Gone, but never forgotten, Rest easy now my Brother in Law, your watch on earth is over. God please watch over, and tend to the loved ones left behind.......

Sgt. John L. Gulledge (Ret.)
Escambia CO Sheriff's Office Pensacola FL.

May 3, 2010

Chief Strzelecki and the entire Niles Police Department extend our deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Sergeant Bergeron. Godspeed.

Niles, Illinois Police Department

May 3, 2010

Rest In Peace Our Brother

Lt B Cole
Lake Charles Police Dept (LOUISIANA)

May 3, 2010

To the family of Sergeant Bergeron and the Maplewood Police Department. My heart goes out to you all in your time of grief. Sergeant Bergeron was one of a kind, and he will be truly missed. Keep an eye out for each other emotionally. My thoughts and prayers are with you through this difficult time.

Commander Kris Mienert
Woodbury Police Department, MN

May 3, 2010

My deepest sympathy to Joe's family and to Maplewood PD. Sgt. Bergeron, we honor your ultimate sacrifice. We have lost another brother and another hero. Rest in peace, we have the watch from here.

Officer A. Dehn #5211
Princeton Police Dept, MN

May 3, 2010

Rest in peace Sarge....my thougths are with your family, friends and the members of the MPD during this most difficult and tragic time.

Lt. Joseph Ward, Ret.
Jackson, NJ PD

May 3, 2010