Roll of Honor
Incident
Detective Schiller died as a result of exposure to a methamphetamine laboratory which he had been investigating for several months. Detective Schiller and members of the Drug Task Force had set up their investigation next door to the illegal laboratory and conducted surveillance for six months before Detective Schiller was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. He died six months after the diagnoses and the coroner confirmed his death was a direct result of the chemicals found in the methamphetamine laboratory.
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27 years. You could have gone home.
Detective Schiller gave the Colton Police Department 27 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Colton community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective Schiller.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Detective Kenneth Scott Schiller is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In CA, 75 of 1,837 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 4.1% of this state's fallen. That is 5 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
At Colton Police Department, 1 of 3 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 33.3% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Kenneth Scott Schiller's cause is highlighted.
How Kenneth Scott Schiller Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Kenneth Scott Schiller is highlighted in Dec.
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