Roll of Honor
Incident
Undersheriff Jacka was electrocuted while searching for two men. He located the bodies of the two men and found they had been electrocuted by a downed power line. As he approached the two in the darkness he also came into contact with the power line and was killed.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Undersheriff Jacka served with the Barton County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Great Bend community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Undersheriff Jacka.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Undersheriff Alfred E. Jacka is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In KS, 66 of 335 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 19.7% of this state's fallen. That is 19.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
National Cause Distribution
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When Accident Deaths Occur
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