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Lieutenant

Robert Lawrence Cormier

Dallas Police Department — Dallas, TX

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch July 24, 1984

Age 46

Tour of Duty 24 yrs 10 mo

Badge 1599

The Vigil Panel 128 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 94

Incident

Lieutenant Robert Cormier and Reserve Officer James Taylor were killed in a helicopter accident near the intersection of South Hall Street and Canton Street. The officers were looking for landing spots for the upcoming Republican Convention when the helicopter struck a communications tower 450 feet in the air. Both officers were killed instantly. Lieutenant Cormier was a U.S Air Force veteran and had served with the Dallas Police Department for almost 25 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and five children.

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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.
Lieutenant Cormier gave the Dallas Police Department 24 years.
Thank you for your service to the Dallas 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 Dallas Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Dallas, TX

Platform Identity dpd.dallas.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 24, 1984

Tour of Duty 24 yrs 10 mo

Age 46

Badge Number 1599

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Robert Lawrence Cormier served in the U.S. Air Force before joining law enforcement.

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Lieutenant Robert Lawrence Cormier 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 TX, 657 of 2,421 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27.1% of this state's fallen. That is 27.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Dallas Police Department, 30 of 95 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.6% of this agency's fallen.

Dallas Police Department

of 95 officers

31.6% Accident

TX — Statewide

657

of 2,421 officers

27.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident