Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 2019 — Historical Half-Staff Archive
Historical archive — 2019. This records a past observance and is not a current half-staff notice.
Peace Officers Memorial Day and Police Week, 2019
President Donald J. Trump issued Proclamation 9884 of May 10, 2019. The Federal Register published this document on 2019-05-15.
Half-staff period and scope
May 15, 2019, 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 display the flag 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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