Robert Fleet

Metropolitan Police Department — Washington, DC

Cardiac Veteran

End of Watch August 20, 1874

Age 32

Tour of Duty 4 yrs 10 mo

Badge 13

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 130

Incident

Officer Robert Fleet suffered a fatal heart attack near the intersection of Q Street and 15th Street after running to a police call box to report a fire at approximately 1:20 am.

He was walking his beat when he observed a building on fire. He immediately ran to the nearest call box and reported the alarm, then collapsed. Several citizens located his body at the base of the call box and called for help.

Officer Fleet was a United States Navy veteran and had served with the Metropolitan Police Department for just under five years and is believed to be the second African American officer hired by the department. He was a member of the Social Lodge of Mason No. 1.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and two 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 Fleet gave the Metropolitan Police Department 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Washington 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 Metropolitan Police Department

Location Washington, DC

Platform Identity mpdc.dc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 20, 1874

Tour of Duty 4 yrs 10 mo

Age 32

Badge Number 13

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Cardiac

Military Service

Robert Fleet served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Officer Robert Fleet is one of 1,306 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 4% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In DC, 71 of 1,419 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 5% of this state's fallen. That is 1 percentage points above the national rate of 4%.

At Metropolitan Police Department, 5 of 131 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 3.8% of this agency's fallen.

Metropolitan Police Department

of 131 officers

3.8% Cardiac

DC — Statewide

of 1,419 officers

5% Cardiac

Nationwide

1,306

of 32,508 officers

4% Cardiac