Wilfredo Luis Berenguer-Calderon

Puerto Rico Police Department — San Juan, 127

Accident

End of Watch October 1, 1996

Age 25

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 363

Incident

Agent Wilfredo Berenguer-Calderon, Agent Hector Melendez-Rosa, and Agent Roberto Batista-Rosario were killed in an automobile crash when their patrol car was struck by multiple vehicles and became engulfed in flames on PR-2, near the Espinosa neighborhood. The driver of the car that caused the crash was found to be not competent to stand trial.

Survivors

Agent Berenguer-Calderon was survived by his wife and child.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Agent Berenguer-Calderon served with the Puerto Rico Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the San Juan community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Agent Berenguer-Calderon.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Puerto Rico Police Department

Location San Juan, 127

Platform Identity prpd.pr.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 1, 1996

Age 25

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Agent Wilfredo Luis Berenguer-Calderon is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In 127, 85 of 388 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 21.9% of this state's fallen. That is 9.1 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.

At Puerto Rico Police Department, 77 of 364 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 21.2% of this agency's fallen.

Puerto Rico Police Department

of 364 officers

21.2% Accident

127 — Statewide

of 388 officers

21.9% Accident

Nationwide

10,088

of 32,508 officers

31% Accident