Paul E. Mortimer

Dayton Police Department — Dayton, OH

Veteran → Illness

End of Watch July 31, 1970

Age 46

Tour of Duty 21 yrs

Badge 46

The Vigil Panel 107 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 30

Incident

Sergeant Paul Mortimer died four years after contracting Hepatitis while removing clothing from a murder victim at a homicide scene near the intersection of Huron Avenue and North Western Avenue. His health deteriorated as a result of the disease until his death. Sergeant Mortimer had been with the Dayton Police Department for 21 years. He was survived by his wife and two daughters. Sergeant Mortimer's brother, Detective Sergeant William Mortimer, was shot and killed in the line of duty four years later while also serving with the Dayton Police Department.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and two daughters.

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Tributes

21 years. You could have gone home.
Sergeant Mortimer gave the Dayton Police Department 21 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Dayton community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Mortimer.

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

Agency

Department Dayton Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Dayton, Montgomery County, OH

Platform Identity dpd.montgomery.oh.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 31, 1970

Tour of Duty 21 yrs

Age 46

Badge Number 46

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Military Service

Paul E. Mortimer served in the U.S. Army (1943â1946) before joining law enforcement.

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Sergeant Paul E. Mortimer is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In OH, 49 of 991 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 4.9% of this state's fallen. That is 4.9 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Dayton Police Department, 7 of 31 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 22.6% of this agency's fallen.

Dayton Police Department

of 31 officers

22.6% Illness

OH — Statewide

of 991 officers

4.9% Illness

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Illness