Crime & Safety

APD Officer Thomas to be remembered at Annual Memorial Service

Tuesday's ceremony is dedicated to the Zone 5 officer who was killed during the line of duty in January.

The Atlanta Police Department will hold its 21th Annual Memorial Service next week and the service will be dedicated to Senior Police Officer Gail Denise Thomas, the second Atlanta female police officer to be killed in the line of duty.

On Jan. 24, Thomas, a Zone 5 officer, was struck by a vehicle driven by a suspected drunken driver while assisting another officer at a traffic accident on the Brookwood Interchange ramp in between Midtown and Buckhead.

Thomas was a 20-year city employee, 15 of which she spent as an APD officer. The service will take place on Tuesday, May 1 at 11 a.m., in the Atrium at City Hall, 55 Trinity Avenue.

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The memorial speaker will be Dr. Marnie Crumpler, Executive Pastor of Peachtree Presbyterian Church, in Atlanta.

The Atlanta Police Department is the largest Law Enforcement Agency in the state of Georgia, as a result of that it also has the highest number of officers killed in the line of duty, 79. The memorial service, which will be streamed live and stored here, pays tribute to those officers and their families.

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