Roll of Honor
Monica June Riola
Incident
Location: California Incident Date: Not available
Officer Monica Riola died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 while working at the Los Angeles International Airport.
Officer Riola served with the United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection. She began her career with the Immigration and Naturalization Services in 1996.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Officer Monica June Riola died on August 20, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 51.
He is one of 884 officers honored here, and one of 29 at United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - Office of Field Operations.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
Officer Riola is survived by her husband and two children.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Officer Riola gave the United States Department of Homeland Security 25 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Officer Riola.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Officer Monica June Riola 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 DC, 137 of 1,419 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 9.7% of this state's fallen. That is 0.6 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.
At United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - Office of Field Operations, 30 of 39 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 76.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Monica June Riola's cause is highlighted.
How Monica June Riola Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Monica June Riola is highlighted in Aug.
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