Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 2025

Proclamation 10938 of May 12, 2025

Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 2025

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

On Peace Officers Memorial Day and during Police Week,
we honor our brave officers who serve on the front
lines to protect our families, safeguard our
communities, and shoulder a burden of responsibility
that most Americans cannot fathom. This week and
always, we honor the courageous men and women serving
in law enforcement and memorialize those who sacrificed
their lives defending the thin blue line.

A nation in chaos ceases to be a citadel of liberty.
Tragically, the previous administration allowed
lawlessness to permeate our country, making it harder
for our law enforcement officers to do their jobs.
Their reckless, soft-on-crime policies emboldened
criminals and thugs; wreaked havoc on the sanctity of
our homes, businesses, and public spaces; instilled
fear; and jeopardized public trust.

As your 47th President, I am fulfilling my promise to
make America safe again by reclaiming sovereignty on
the border and restoring the rule of law in communities
nationwide. We will utilize every available means to
equip and train law enforcement, retain qualified
officers, and recruit on the basis of meritocracy.

The oath to serve and protect comes with extraordinary
risk and sacrifice, and we are indebted to those who
choose this righteous profession. That is why I have
asked the Congress to codify my Executive Order
mandating the death penalty for the murder of a police
officer--sending an unequivocal message that barbaric
acts of violence and blatant disregard for the lives of
our Nation's heroes will not be tolerated--and to pass
a crime bill with enhanced protections for police
officers.

I stand in steadfast solidarity with those who defend
our freedoms and the families who love and support
them. We pray for those who grieve the fallen and
pledge that their lives, legacies, and sacrifices will
forever be remembered by our grateful Nation.

By a joint resolution approved October 1, 1962, as
amended (Public Law 87-726, 76 Stat. 676), and by
Public Law 105-225 (36 U.S.C. 136-137), the President
has been authorized and requested to designate May 15
of each year as ``Peace Officers Memorial Day'' and the
week in which it falls as ``Police Week.''

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 15,
2025, as Peace Officers Memorial Day and May 11 through
May 17, 2025, as Police Week. I call upon all Americans
to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and
activities. I also call on the Governors of the States
and Territories and officials of other areas subject to
the jurisdiction of the United States to direct that
the flag be flown at half-staff on Peace Officers
Memorial Day.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.