Our officers are already in #PortHope Next stop #Bellville @460km #RunToRemember pic.twitter.com/sj7oPpKV6E
— Peel Regional Police (@PeelPoliceMedia) September 22, 2016
A national run to raise awareness and focus attention on the annual Police and Peace Officers’ Memorial Service makes its way through Belleville Friday morning.
The National Peace Officers’ Memorial ‘Run to Remember’ got underway at the Ontario Police Memorial site in Toronto this morning and ends at the National Memorial on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday.
The 460 km relay gives peace officers and citizens along the route the opportunity to participate in some small way if they are unable to attend the actual Memorial Service.
For the runners that participate in the three day relay it is their way of fulfilling that pledge, that promise, that they will not forget those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of their community, their province and indeed their country
The officer’s names are etched on the Memorial Wall in Ottawa.
Belleville will begin its escort at Montrose Road at 9 a.m. tomorrow going along Highway 2 to Old Kingston Road.
