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Police Officer

Kenneth L. Collings

Phoenix Police Department — Phoenix, AZ

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch May 27, 1988

Age 32

Tour of Duty 8 yrs

Badge 3855

The Vigil Panel 133 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 46

Incident

Police Officer Kenneth Collings was shot and killed while working a uniformed off-duty security job at a local bank at W. McDowell Road and 21rst Avenue. He was in the process of arresting two robbery suspects at a Valley National Bank branch when one of the suspects opened fire, fatally wounding him. One of the men was arrested shortly thereafter. The second suspect was arrested in Mexico in June 2000 after being wounded in a shootout with police. The man was extradited to Arizona after state prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. In November 2002 he was sentenced to life in prison. Officer Collings was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Phoenix Police Department for eight years.

Survivors

He was survived by his mother and four sisters.

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Tributes

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 Collings gave the Phoenix Police Department 8 years.
Thank you for your service to the Phoenix community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Phoenix Police Department

Type Other

Location Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Platform Identity phoepd.maricopa.az.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 27, 1988

Tour of Duty 8 yrs

Age 32

Badge Number 3855

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Military Service

Kenneth L. Collings served in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Kenneth L. Collings 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 97,756 officers honored here.

In AZ, 204 of 330 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.8% of this state's fallen. That is 61.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Phoenix Police Department, 28 of 47 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 59.6% of this agency's fallen.

Phoenix Police Department

of 47 officers

59.6% Felonious

AZ — Statewide

204

of 330 officers

61.8% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Felonious