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Officer

Wilbert Wiggins Sr.

Jacksonville Sheriff's Office — Jacksonville, FL

Veteran → Cardiac

End of Watch November 8, 2002

Age 66

Tour of Duty 41 yrs

Badge 5610

The Vigil Panel 150 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 29

Incident

Officer Wilbert Wiggins suffered a fatal heart attack while attempting to hook up a trailer to a police truck.

He and several officers were preparing to conduct a traffic operation on a local interstate, and Officer Wiggins was preparing some of the equipment. He collapsed as he was pulling a trailer towards the police truck. Other officers located him on the ground next to the truck after he failed to arrive at the location of the traffic operation. He was taken to a local hospital, where he passed away the following day.

Officer Wiggins was a United States Air Force veteran and had served with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office for 41 years.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife and three 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.
Officer Wiggins gave the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office 41 years.
Thank you for your service to the Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville Sheriff's Office

Type Sheriff's Office

Location Jacksonville, Duval County, FL

Platform Identity jso.duval.fl.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 8, 2002

Tour of Duty 41 yrs

Age 66

Badge Number 5610

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Cardiac

Military Service

Wilbert Wiggins Sr. served in the U.S. Air Force before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Wilbert Wiggins Sr. is one of 1 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In FL, 62 of 1,008 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 6.2% of this state's fallen. That is 6.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, 5 of 30 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 16.7% of this agency's fallen.

Jacksonville Sheriff's Office

of 30 officers

16.7% Cardiac

FL — Statewide

of 1,008 officers

6.2% Cardiac

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Cardiac