National Badge of Honor Memorial Foundation

Every year, over 900,000 law enforcement officers risk their lives protecting our communities; businesses, families, and neighbors ensuring the safety and rights of every American. Law enforcement is a noble and dangerous line of work and in carrying out their duties, not every officer returns home at the end of the day. Approximately one officer is killed in the line of duty every two days in the United States—over 125 annually over the last 10 years.The Badge of Honor Memorial Foundation mission is to assist the survivors and departments of officers who have been killed in the line of duty to obtain all the statutory benefits that may be available to them and to train law enforcement departments on casualty planning. The Foundation accomplishes this goal by providing workshops through Federal and state law enforcement associations. Motorola Solutions Foundation is our primary sponsor for this training initiative. The workshops introduce the Foundation 's Agency Casualty Assistance Guide, which covers the entire spectrum of issues in detail that a department faces when an agency loses an officer. This 75-page document was penned by the Foundation and serves many small departments as a death protocol manual. For the last 14 years, we have contacted every department—police, sheriffs, and state police—usually within 48 hours, to advise them of the Federal and state line-of-duty death benefits available to the survivors and to automatically forward to the department a copy of our Agency Casualty Assistance Guide.The Foundation's Board of Trustees oversees all activities of the Foundation. Currently, the Board is made up of 26 senior sworn officers from police departments, sheriff's departments, and state police departments. All Trustees are either on their respective police, city or county pension boards and/or hold leadership roles within their police organizations. The Board of Trustees' primary function is to advise the law enforcement agencies about the Foundation and its activities. Additionally, the Trustees are responsible for alerting the Foundation when there is an officer down. The Badge of Honor Memorial Foundation helps families, who as a result of a law enforcement officer's death, are enduring personal hardship. The number one concern of any police officer is the financial security of his or her family. The Badge of Honor Memorial Foundation is able to assist families of slain public safety officers to receive the financial security available to them. As the national advocates for these families, our goal is to make sure no loved one is left behind.