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May 20, 2010 - 9:51 pm

Law enforcement agencies from Southern Nevada remembered officers who died in the line of duty during a ceremony at Police memorial Park Thursday, may 20, 2010. Twenty-eight officers have died in the line of duty. Five have died since last years ceremony. The first was Union Pacific night Watchman Joe Mulholland on October 1, 1905. The most recent was Nye County Deputy Sheriff Ian Deutch on April 26, 2010.

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