POLICE across the country will stop on Thursday and remember the sacrifice of colleagues killed in the line of duty.
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September 29, Police Remembrance Day, holds a special significance for police throughout Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and the Solomon Islands.
It is a day for police to pause and honour officers whose lives have been cut short while performing their duty as a police officer.
This important day is also a time to remember police officers who have lost their lives through illness or other circumstances.
In Chifley Local Area Command, police, joined by other emergency services, will come together for a service at the All Saints Cathedral, Bathurst, beginning at 11am.
Police Remembrance Day is a poignant event in Bathurst, who lost one of its own, Sergeant Paul Quinn, fatally shot at Perthville.
Sgt Quinn was just 25 when he was shot dead by Patrick Horan on March 30, 1986.
Horan, a paranoid schizophrenic, had not been taking his medication when his mother called police about his erratic and violent behavior.
One of the officers to respond to the call was Constable Quinn, then 25 and on duty at Bathurst for only his fifth shift since being transferred from Casino, to be near his parents.
After a pursuit that ended 10 kilometres south of Bathurst at Perthville, Constable Quinn got out of his car and ran towards Horan, who fatally shot him in the left clavicle with a .303-calibre rifle.
Senior Constable Ian Borland, then 36, who also responded to the call, was seriously injured being shot in both legs and his hand. After injuring Sen Const Borland, Horan continued shooting at five other officers.
Sergeant Quinn is one of two officers killed within the command; Senior Constable Clarence Pierie died in the line of duty in 1960.
Senior Constable Clarrie Pirie was the Officer-in-Charge of the Capertee Police Station from 1958 until his death on 13 October, 1960.
A spokesperson for Chifley LAC said said National Police Remembrance Day holds significant meaning for all the people who work within the command because two colleagues had given their lives in the line of duty.
Everyone is welcome to attend the service which begins at 11am on Thursday.
