{"id":42521,"date":"2020-07-29T06:39:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T04:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=42521"},"modified":"2023-07-29T04:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:34:59","slug":"blue-honor-an-international-initiative-to-pay-tribute-to-fallen-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/07\/29\/blue-honor-an-international-initiative-to-pay-tribute-to-fallen-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Honor: an international initiative to pay tribute to fallen police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every July 24 since 1995, Poland celebrates \u015awi\u0119to Policji (Police Day), a holiday dedicated to honoring fallen police officers on duty.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/05\/11\/apel-pamieci-the-ceremony-of-the-polish-army-to-honor-its-fallen-for-the-homeland\/\">Apel Pami\u0119ci: the ceremony of the Polish Army to honor its fallen for the Homeland<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/11\/20\/military-tunes-for-the-fallen-of-poland-and-germany-sounded-together-in-the-bundestag\/\">Military tunes for the fallen of Poland and Germany sounded together in the Bundestag<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This celebration, which was already held during the Second Polish Republic between the world wars, gave rise to <strong>an initiative on social networks titled Niebieski Honor (Blue Honor), to honor the men and women of the Police who have died in compliance of their duty<\/strong>, and that consists of publishing a tribute video on Twitter with the hashtags #BlueHonour or #NiebieskiHonor. The text released by the Polish Police on this initiative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TcJdwedzDLw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">states<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\"Every day, thousands of policemen and policewomen from all over the world go to work to make you feel safe.<\/strong> They fulfill their duties with full commitment and dedication. <strong>Some people pay the highest price for it.<\/strong> We do not raise money. We do not support any idea. We do not protest. We are not making demands. We are not fighting. <strong>We simply want to pay tribute to the police officers and female police officers who died in the act of service.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can see here a video made by officers of the Bydgoszcz Provincial Police Headquarters, in Poland, making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/09\/04\/the-military-salute-origin-types-curiosities\/\">the Polish military salute<\/a> in front of a monument to their deceased companions, while <strong>the \"\u015apij kolego\" (Sleep comrade)<\/strong> sounds, the Polish military bugle call for honor the fallen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u0wp5rFUcsQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>From Spain, the Civil Guard has joined this tribute<\/strong> with a video published last night with Karolina Gawlicka-B\u0105k, liaison officer of the Polish Police at the Polish Embassy in Madrid, and Lieutenant Pedro Manuel Garc\u00eda V\u00e1zquez, from the civil Guard. <strong>At the end of the video, \"La muerte no es el final\" (Death is not the end) plays<\/strong>, the military anthem dedicated to those who gave their lives for Spain, subtitled in Spanish and Polish:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r4DeFuNbgBs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also from Spain, the National Police Corps has joined the initiative with this video<\/strong>, in which the Toque de Oraci\u00f3n (Bugle Calle of Prayer) is heard in honor of those who died in an act held at the National Police School of \u00c1vila:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0m-AIY6M1vM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lithuanian Police have joined this tribute<\/strong> with this video that they have sent to their Polish neighbors:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6VWdw4-TfM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Slovenian Police also joined the initiative<\/strong> with this tribute:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzxbL8kHHk4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here we can see <strong>the nice video of the Moldovan Police<\/strong> on the occasion of this initiative:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DHUUZxp24nY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivier Ordas, Internal Security Attach\u00e9 of the French Embassy in Warsaw<\/strong>, also joined this initiative:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gEJvRYKQ3Ng\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here we see the video of Tudor Costin<\/strong>, Attach\u00e9 of Internal Affairs of the Romanian Embassy in Warsaw, joining his salute in tribute to the fallen police officers:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRm9EqzH76s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In <strong>The Hague (Netherlands)<\/strong> there was also a simple tribute by Grzegorz Mazurkiewicz, Polish liaison officer at Europol:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mGLi0o7XHVQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I end with <strong>a song in Polish by policeman Krzysztof Ciborski, titled \"Drogi Bracie\" (Dear Brother)<\/strong>, dedicated to fallen policemen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZVdQRMhkvd0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>From here I join this tribute to the fallen police officers.<\/strong> We can never be grateful enough for the work that so many men and women do to ensure our safety every day, often risking their lives and often falling into service.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><big>We remember! Pami\u0119tamy!<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every July 24 since 1995, Poland celebrates \u015awi\u0119to Policji (Police Day), a holiday dedicated to honoring fallen police officers on duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11547],"tags":[10370,14104,11111,11916],"class_list":["post-42521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-security-forces","tag-poland","tag-polska-policja","tag-spanish-civil-guard","tag-spanish-national-police-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}