(MEDIA ADVISORY: Media representatives are invited to attend this event. Interviews can be arranged following the service.)

SPC to host 2025 Peace Officer Memorial Service on April 30

LEVELLAND – South Plains College’s annual Peace Officer Memorial Service will take place at 10 a.m. on April 30 on the lawn of the Levelland campus entrance. The event will honor law enforcement officers whose lives were lost while serving and protecting citizens across the United States in 2024.

“At this year’s service, SPC Honor Guard students, local law enforcement and the local community will come together to honor 165 officers who lost their lives,” Mark Wittie, SPC assistant professor of law enforcement, said.

The SPC Law Enforcement Honor Guard will perform a 21-gun salute and Taps, and the Levelland Police Department Honor Guard will raise the flags. Levelland Police Chief Erica O’Bryon will serve as the keynote speaker, and Michael Mogan of the Lubbock Airport Police Department will play the bagpipes during the service.

“We honor the fallen by training the living,” is the motto of SPC’s Law Enforcement Technology program.

For more information about the service, contact Wittie at mwittie@southplainscollege.edu or 806-716-2356.