Officer Blaine L. Baxter was killed in a motorcycle accident while enforcing speed limits in Salt Lake City.
Category: Fallen Officers
Officer Joseph H. Quigley was shot and killed while attempting to arrest two gasoline thieves.
Utah County Deputy James R. Hand died from injuries suffered in a duty-related traffic crash.
Trooper George E. Van Wagenen was the first Utah Highway Patrol trooper to lose his life in the line of duty
Deputy Westwood was shot to death during the escape of two prisoners from the Grand County Jail.
Officer Willard R. Dahle was shot and killed by a bootlegger.
Officer Carl J. Carlson died from injuries he received during a liquor raid the previous day.
Deputy Oscar Fullmer died in a Bingham Canyon traffic crash.
Marshal Jesse R. Ward was killed in a one-car traffic accident near West Jordan.
On Saturday, September 3, 1927, Officer Rollin R. Tanner was on duty in Liberty Park during the visitation of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.