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Police Officer

Paul William Jurgens

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department — Jersey City, NJ

September 11, 2001 → Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch September 11, 2001

Age 47

Tour of Duty 21 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Memorials 1 Also Remembered Department 59

Incident

Police Officer Paul Jurgens was killed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks while attempting to rescue the victims trapped in the World Trade Center.

Officer Jurgens was assigned to the police academy, and is survived by his wife and three young children. Officer Jurgens' nephew, Senior Court Officer Thomas Jurgens, of the New York State Office of Court Administration, was also killed on 9/11 while responding to the scene.

September 11, 2001

Police Officer Paul William Jurgens was killed at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001. He was 47 years old.

He is one of 72 officers honored here, and one of 37 at Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department.

Seventy-two law enforcement officers from eight local, state, and federal agencies were killed at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, alongside 343 members of the New York City Fire Department and more than 2,800 civilians. A fourth aircraft went down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where a law enforcement officer aboard was among the dead.

Officers went into the towers while everyone else was coming out. More than 25,000 people reached safety because they did.

Survivors

Officer Jurgens was assigned to the police academy, and is survived by his wife and three young children.

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Tributes

You went in while everyone else was coming out.
Police Officer Jurgens gave the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department 21 years.
Thank you for your service to the Jersey City community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Jurgens.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Jersey City, NJ

Platform Identity panynjpd.hudson.nj.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 11, 2001

Tour of Duty 21 yrs

Age 47

Gender Male

Born Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Cause Detail Terrorist attack

Weapon Aircraft; Passenger jet

Military Service

Paul William Jurgens served in the U.S. Marine Corps (1974â1977) before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Paul William Jurgens is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,787 officers honored here.

In NJ, 264 of 646 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 40.9% of this state's fallen. That is 40.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, 41 of 60 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 68.3% of this agency's fallen.

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department

of 60 officers

68.3% Felonious

NJ — Statewide

264

of 646 officers

40.9% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,787 officers

0% Felonious