Roll of Honor
Incident
Interim Police Chief Mark Romutis died as a result of complications after contracting COVID-19 while on duty.
Chief Romutis was appointed to his position with the Ambridge Borough Police Department in 2018 and had served in law enforcement for 40 years. He had previously served with the Upper St. Clair Township Police Department, Pittsburgh Police Department, and Ellwood City Police Department.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Interim Police Chief Mark Joseph Romutis died on April 12, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 64.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
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
He is survived by his wife and son.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Interim Police Chief Romutis gave the Ambridge Borough Police Department 40 years.
Thank you for your service to the Ambridge community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Interim Police Chief Romutis.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Interim Police Chief Mark Joseph Romutis 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 PA, 121 of 1,261 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 9.6% of this state's fallen. That is 0.5 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Mark Joseph Romutis's cause is highlighted.
How Mark Joseph Romutis Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Mark Joseph Romutis is highlighted in Apr.