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Sergeant

Timothy Earl Werner

Pittsburgh Bureau of Police — Pittsburgh, PA

Veteran → Illness

End of Watch November 2, 2021

Age 49

Tour of Duty 21 yrs 5 mo

Badge 3809

The Vigil Panel 178 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Also Remembered Department 100

Incident

Sergeant Timothy Werner died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.

Sergeant Werner was a United States Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police for over 21 years. He was assigned to Police Headquarters.

Beginning in early 2020, thousands of law enforcement officers and other first responders throughout the country began to contract COVID-19 during the worldwide pandemic. Due to the nature of their job, law enforcement officers were required to work and interact with the community even as the majority of the country was self-quarantined. As a result, hundreds of officers died from COVID-related illnesses and other complications.

Corrections agencies, in particular, suffered tremendous losses due to the constant and close proximity between the corrections officers and large inmate populations. Since March 2020, ODMP has verified that over 900 law enforcement officers have died as the result of a confirmed or presumed exposure while on duty and continues to work with hundreds of other agencies that have suffered a COVID-related death.

Visit ODMP's COVID-19 memorial listing every officer who has died as a result of a confirmed or presumed exposure.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Sergeant Timothy Earl Werner died on November 2, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 49.

He is one of 884 officers honored here, and one of 3 at Pittsburgh Bureau of Police.

Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.

Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Sergeant Werner gave the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police 21 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Werner.

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

Agency

Department Pittsburgh Bureau of Police

Type Federal Agency

Location Pittsburgh, PA

Platform Identity pittpd.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 2, 2021

Tour of Duty 21 yrs 5 mo

Age 49

Badge Number 3809

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Military Service

Timothy Earl Werner served in the U.S. Marine Corps (1993â1993) before joining law enforcement.

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Sergeant Timothy Earl Werner is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,787 officers honored here.

In PA, 121 of 1,261 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 9.6% of this state's fallen. That is 9.6 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, 13 of 101 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 12.9% of this agency's fallen.

Pittsburgh Bureau of Police

of 101 officers

12.9% Illness

PA — Statewide

121

of 1,261 officers

9.6% Illness

Nationwide

of 97,787 officers

0% Illness