Police Unity Tour with 300 Joins County Tributes May 10

CREST HAVEN — As 300 police officers, attired in blue for the Police Unity Tour, listened May 10, Cape May County paid tribute to six officers who died in the line of duty at the Law Enforcement Memorial.
They paid tribute to Officer Harry E. Shore, Ocean City Police Department, Chief Philip DeSantis, Woodbine Borough Police Department, Officer Michael Cullinane Sr., Sea Isle City Police Department, Officer David C. Douglass Sr., Lower Township Police Department, Officer Eugene Miglio, Wildwood Crest Police Department, and Trooper Bertram Zimmerman, New Jersey State Police, Troop “A” Tactical Patrol Unit.
Chief Thomas D’Intino, of Sea Isle City Police Department, and president, Cape May County Chiefs of Police Association was master of ceremonies.
Rev. Andrew Ervin of Seashore Community Church of the Nazarene, Erma delivered the invocation and Benediction.
Speakers were Freeholder Director Gerald Thornton, Vice Director Leonard Desiderio, Sen. Jeff Van Drew (D-1st), Assemblyman Samuel Fiocchi (R-1st) and Assemblyman Robert Andrzejczak, (D-1st), U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-2nd) and Sheriff Gary Schaffer.
Members of the 45th Class of Class II Special Law Enforcement Officers advanced to the monument that had the deceased officers’ names engraved upon it. They stood at attention, saluted, and recited the officer’s name.
Floral tributes were place, and a three-volley salute was rendered by the Coast Guard Training Center Ceremonial Detail, and “Taps” was played.
Piper Tom Palmer of Cape May County Police and Fire Irish Pipe Brigade performed “Amazing Grace” at the outset of the ceremony.
Then, after the riders of the Police Unity Tour rested and got lunch, they resumed their trek down Police Unity Tour Highway to Ferry Road in North Cape May.
There, at David C. Douglass Sr. Memorial Park, Lower Township Police Lt. Patrick Greene welcomed the riders and reminded them of the ultimate sacrifice made by Douglass. Looking on were his widow, Debbie Douglass, their son, David Douglass Jr. and grandson David Douglass III.
Dennis Felsing, president, Chapter 2, Police Unity Tour presented Douglass with a golden rose as a memorial to her late husband.
The riders and 100 support personnel crossed the Delaware Bay on the Cape May-Lewes Ferry. They stayed in the Lewes, Del area overnight, said Felsing. Then, on May 11 they will make their way to Annapolis, Md., and on May 12 will cycle into Washington, D.C. where police officers from around the nation gather in tribute to all fallen officers at the national memorial.