Giovanni S. Colonna

Philadelphia Police Department — Philadelphia, PA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch December 24, 1953

Age 27

Tour of Duty 3 mo

Badge 208

The Vigil Panel 89 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 377

Incident

Officer Colonna succumbed to injuries sustained when his motorcycle collided with a police patrol car at 11th and Vine Streets. Both officers were headed for a fire at 8th and Berks streets. Officer Colonna had been out of the Police Academy only three months. Officer Colonna was a U.S Army veteran of WWII.

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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Police Officer Colonna served with the Philadelphia Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Philadelphia community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Philadelphia Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Platform Identity ppd.philadelphia.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 24, 1953

Tour of Duty 3 mo

Age 27

Badge Number 208

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Giovanni S. Colonna served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Giovanni S. Colonna is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In PA, 417 of 1,261 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33.1% of this state's fallen. That is 33.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Philadelphia Police Department, 110 of 378 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29.1% of this agency's fallen.

Philadelphia Police Department

110

of 378 officers

29.1% Accident

PA — Statewide

417

of 1,261 officers

33.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident