The names of 31 Sheriff’s deputies and volunteers who gave their lives were read during the Peace Officers Memorial ceremony in Oildale.
Sheriff Donny Youngblood called Thursday’s event a celebration because it has been a decade since they have had to chisel another name into a monument to the fallen outside department headquarters.
Other Kern County law enforcement agencies also came to the ceremony and will hold their own memorial next week in front of the downtown Bakersfield courthouse.
Kelli Forsch