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Police Officers Bike for Fallen

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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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By Drew Bollea  Chattanooga police officers will take part in three day bike ride as part of Police Week 2013. The 14 officers will meet up with hundreds of other police men and women from around the country in Chesapeake, Virginia. From there, they will bike the 250 miles to Washington D. C. for a memorial service. Each rider is representing a fellow officer who was killed in the line of duty last year.There's wrecks, there is the potential for rain, said Officer Justin Kilgore with the Chattanooga Police Department. Kilgore and eight other Chattanooga officers will ride the course to D.C. while five more officers provide support along the way. The sweat over three days, the dirt, the rain doesn't matter because what you're focused on is I'm not doing this for me, said Kilgore, I'm doing this for that family.Each riding officer represents a fallen member of the force and their family. It's so appreciative to know that people are still thinking about us and caring about us. said Danielle Maples.  Maples' husband, Justin, worked for the Cleveland Police Department. He died after crashing his police cruiser while in pursuit of a stolen jeep in Bradley County.It helps to remember their dad, who he was as an officer, said Maples, hugging her three young boys. Hopefully it will help his family, said Officer Curtis Roth, who will be riding for Justin Maples. He hadn't met Danielle and here children until Justin's funeral last May.  What they've done and what they've given to our community is priceless, said Roth.  The next time Roth will see the Maples family is in DC.  That is when Officer Justin Maples' name will be memorialized. I know that his presence and spirit will be there with us and seeing Justin's name on the wall is more than he would have ever imagined for himself, and it's an honor, said Maples. In order to take part in the ride, each officer had to raise $1,300. All of  the money goes to support the families left behind by their loved ones.Police Week began in 1962 with May 15th being recognized as Peace Officers Memorial day.

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