BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Police in Berks County gathered at the police memorial to honor law enforcers we lost this year.<\/p>\n
The Fraternal Order of Police hosts this service in Bern Township every May.<\/p>\n
They honor law enforcers who worked in Berks County and have died, including 18 who made the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n
This year, organizers say they added six names to the memorial, including two active officers and a recent retiree.<\/p>\n
“Over the years more and more names that were going on were names that I worked with that were mentors, that were people that I looked up to, and it’s, you know, to hear the names and hear them honored for what they did and how they served their community means a lot both to myself and the families of those officers,” said Joseph Brown, president of the Berks FOP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
May is widely recognized as National Police Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Police in Berks County gathered at the police memorial to honor law enforcers we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-181661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}