Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 2018 — Historical Half-Staff Archive
Historical archive — 2018. This records a past observance and is not a current half-staff notice.
Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 2018
President Donald J. Trump issued Proclamation 9748 of May 11, 2018. The Federal Register published this document on 2018-05-17.
Half-staff period and scope
May 15, 2018, Peace Officers Memorial Day.
Annual observance with congressional authorization. The proclamation calls on governors and other jurisdictional officials to direct half-staff display on Peace Officers Memorial Day, and encourages Americans to fly the flag at half-staff at homes and businesses.
Official proclamation
Open or download the official proclamation PDF from GovInfo
Read the Federal Register source
Signature-page preview
Page 2 of the official PDF is reproduced below. It contains a reproduced presidential signature, not an original wet-signed scan. Select the image to open the complete official PDF.
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