Sudbury police officers to take part in run to commemorate fallen colleagues
CBC
A number of police officers in Sudbury will be pounding the pavement on Monday for a good cause.
Members of the Greater Sudbury Police Service running team will spend part of Labour Day running from the Constable Joe MacDonald Memorial Park to the James Jerome Sports Complex to remember local officers who were killed in the line of duty.
Team members, colleagues, family members and friends will then continue to walk or run laps around the complex while the Joe MacDonald Youth Football League holds its opening weekend practices and games.
Their goal is to run a total of 460 kilometres on Monday to equal the distance of the 460 Run to Remember from Toronto to Ottawa.
That event takes place at the end of September as part of the National Police and Peace Officers Memorial Weekend.
"I've been a police officer for 23 years, and my father was a police officer for 30 years," said GSPS Const. Ryan Hutton.
"[I've] been to unfortunately too many police funerals both in Ontario and in Canada. And I mean, the risk is there every day for us. … I just felt it became my duty. ... I needed to be part of the run."
The Greater Sudbury Police Service has lost eight officers in the line of duty, according to a memorial on its website:
The seven-kilometre route from Joe MacDonald Park to the sports complex on Monday will be followed by an additional one-kilomete lap to bring the total distance traveled to eight kilometres – one for every fallen officer.
Everyone in attendance will take part in the final lap.
The local run began around seven years ago, Hutton said, because local officers realized that the community wasn't aware of the larger Ontario event.
"We started doing this, a local piece, at the beginning of September on Labour Day so that anybody who wanted to participate – all the families that are still here – could see that we've never forgotten our eight fallen," he said.
The local running team has about 10 members, including one of the original runners from the national event, Hutton said.
They will also take part in the national run at the end of September.
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