Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

May you rest in peace after having served those around you. My thoughts are with you, your family, fellow officers and friends.

Reserve Officer Gary Krystof
Los Angeles Police Department

December 18, 2011

Rest in peace brother in blue and god bless you.

Lt J.P.
B.P.D.

December 18, 2011

R.I.P. dear sir. Thank you for your sacrifice.

Chaplain Paul Grady
Knoxville Police Department, Knoxville, TN

December 18, 2011

I pray for his family and friends. I pray for our B.C.S.O. and the responders that helped on the scene. May God wrap you all and hold you tight. God Bless his wife and Children.

Laura Moss
Butts Co Resident

December 18, 2011

My wife and I want you to know that our deepest thoughts and prayers are with Deputy Smith's family, friends, co-workers, and agency. Rest In Peace Deputy Smith for you were taken from us far too soon but we will carry on for you…

SGT Mike Allen (Retired)
California Highway Patrol

December 18, 2011

My thoughts are with the family, friends, and co-workers of Deputy Smith. May you all have strength to get through this sad time.

Sister in Blue
Chattanooga Police Dept.

December 18, 2011

A police officer should be remembered not by how he died, but how he lived! A great man has gone to secure a safe path for the rest of us to follow. Thank you to you, your family and the Butts County Sheriff's Office. Rest in Peace Brother.

Chief Steven Marshall
Washington, NH Police Department

December 18, 2011

We will continue to take care of yours as you have taken care of, and watched over ours. You are lost but will never be forgotten...

DEPUTY SHERIFF II SCOTT JONES
FORSYTH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, CUMMING GA

December 18, 2011

Thank you Deputy Sheriff Ronnie Smith for your service, bravery and ultimate sacrifice to your community. May you now watch over from above with your Heavenly Father. Sincere condolences and prayers to the Family and Fellow Officers at the Butts Co. Sheriff's Office.


Rest In Peace Sir...........You will not be forgotten.

Sheila Webber / Michigan
Civilian / G-Grandaughter of Constable Bev Scott, EOW April 2, 1933

December 18, 2011

Rest in peace brother, may God bless your soul for the ultimate sacrifice you have given while serving your fellow man.

Officer Chris Sutcliff
Perry Police Dept., Perry, Ga.

December 18, 2011

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 around on this one."

And the Lord said, "Have you read the requirements 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 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 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 they ask, 'May I see what's in there, sir?'"
(when they already know and wish they'd taken that accounting job) "Another pair here in the side of their head for their partner's safety, and another pair of eyes here in front so they 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 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 Officer 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 its sleep, detain, investigate, search, and arrest a gang member on the street in less time than it takes five learned judges to debate the legality of the stop . . . and still it keeps its 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 muder 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 Police 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, for justice."

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

The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," He said.
My prayers are with you..
Diane Fincher sister of
SGT JIMMY GILBERT HCPD EOW: 05/02/04

Diane Fincher
sister of SGT JIMMY GILBERT EOW: 05/02/04

December 18, 2011

Deputy Sheriff Ronnie Smith rest in peace you are
now a member of an elite group The Thin Blue Line
of Heroes. There is no greater sacrifice that one can give
for his fellow man. To the Family I salute your
lost loved one, and pray for you during the days
to come. Ronnie will be in the company of
heroes forevermore.

The Thin Blue Line of the Fallen are Standing at
attention in their class “A“ uniforms,
badges gleaming and shoes like glass, They are your brothers
and sisters of Law Enforcement. All of whom have
previously paid the ultimate price. Today, like many others,
they welcome you to this hallowed place. As you march
down the Thin Blue Line of the Fallen, all eyes are focused
on you as if to say it will be ok you’re with your eternal
partners. A salute follows and a tear can be seen
on so many faces. Welcome, you served well. Now come join
the ranks, another member of The Thin Blue Line has come home.

Your brother in Law Enforcement

Dr. Stan Phillips Retired
Retired, Walnut Grove Police Department, Walnut Grove. Mississippi

December 18, 2011

On behalf of the men and women of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office, we are praying for the families, friends and coworkers of Deputy Smith and his family and the Butts County Sheriffs Office. May God grant you comfort in the days to come.

Sheriff Scott Berry
President, Georgia Sheriff's Association

December 18, 2011

My thoughts and prayers go out to Ronnie and his family. Also to the Butts Co. S.O. You will be missed brother!

Former GSP Trooper, D. Boyd.
T & T Ga Power Contract Police Detail.

December 18, 2011

Rest in peace brother Smith.

Det. James P. McGrath(retired)
Schenectady Police Department

December 18, 2011

GOD BLESS DEPUTY SMITH AND HIS FAMILY

FRANK SUSAN MURDOCK
BUTTS RESIDENT

December 18, 2011

Please know our prayers are with you at this difficult time. We hope you find comfort with your family and your "police family". We all grieve with you! Much Love

Missy O.
Wife of APD Investigator

December 18, 2011

RIP Brother..Will be praying for your family!

Deputy Tim Smith
Davidson County Sheriff's Office. N.C.

December 18, 2011

Prayers to your family,friends & fellow officers...

The Bandiera Family

December 18, 2011

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Deputy Smith's wife, children and family.

Michael & Connie Edge
Butts County resident

December 18, 2011

God bless the Smith Family.

Officer J.Jaynes
Arizona Highway Patrol

December 18, 2011

Whatever our duty, or wherever we serve, we are all brothers and sisters in this most honorable calling. We have lost yet another brother who we must never forget.

My deepest sympathy to both his family and his police family. My thoughts and prayers are with them. May he rest in eternal peace.

Sgt. Tom Waller, Cincinnati P.D., Ret.
Greater Cincinnati Police Museum

December 18, 2011

Lord only you can provide the complete peace and comfort this wife and daughters must now face. We pray you keep them in your lovings arms and help them to accept and give them the strenght to go on now. Be with all of his other family and friends and co-workers who are suffreing this loss also. May his grace abound for all. In Christ name we ask. Amen...

A county star you wore upon your chest,
showed your were this nations best.
A hero who you are they are hard sought,
But a great husband and father, to be never forgot.

William Pennywitt
Former Sheriff's dept. affiliate

December 18, 2011

Deepest sympathy to the family of Deputy Sheriff Smith, and all those who mourn the loss of Deputy Sheriff Smith. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time.
His service will be greatly missed in your community and his Deeds never forgotten.
God Bless.

PO Retired David Herbert
Toronto Police Service,Ont Canada

December 18, 2011

Rest in Peace my brother

Sr. Insp Charlie Moore
US Marshals Service

December 18, 2011