On local Toledo, Ohio television today was the funeral for Toledo Police Detective Keith Dressel. Dressel was shot and killed in the line of duty Wednesday, Febrauary 21. The funeral coverage started at 10 a.m. and it ended with his grave side services around 3:15 p.m.
During the five hour funeral service, television announcers said there were approximately 3000 mourners at the church. Thousands of police officers were in attendance from 37 states and Canada to honor Detective Dressel for his service to the Toledo Police Department.
I watched most of the funeral coverage. Besides the bagpipers playing "Amazing Grace", helicopter flyovers, a riderless police horse, playing of taps, 21-gun salute and folding of the flag, I think that the saddest moment came at the end of the church service. It is a tradition that when an officer dies in the line of duty that they have a "last call". "A radio dispatcher called out Keith Dressel's unit number and name repeatedly. Getting no answer, the dispatcher gave a short message remembering Dressel, saying he had answered his final call."
Detective Keith Dressel
1971-2007
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