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Police Officer

Phillip Aloysius Bruce

Philadelphia Police Department — Philadelphia, PA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch November 9, 1929

Age 32

Tour of Duty 5 yrs

Badge 3558

The Vigil Panel 58 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 377

Incident

Police Officer Bruce was killed in an automobile accident when his patrol car collided with a fire truck as both vehicles responded to a fire.

Police Officer Bruce was a United States Army veteran of World War I and had served with the Philadelphia Police Department for five years.

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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 Bruce gave the Philadelphia Police Department 5 years.
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 November 9, 1929

Tour of Duty 5 yrs

Age 32

Badge Number 3558

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Phillip Aloysius Bruce served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Phillip Aloysius Bruce 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