National Law Enforcement Officers Week came to a close this past Sunday with a service held at Louisville Memorial Cemetery, attended by members of Louisville Police Dept., the Mississippi Highway Patrol, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Louisville-Winston E911, friends, family and elected officials, to honor Louisville Police Reserve Officer Darrell Cooper, MBN Agent Hank McLeod and State Trooper Joe Clay. An additional service was held at Union Chapel M.B. Church, to honor the recently deceased LPD Officer Neishell Jordan. Union Chapel is pastored by Louisville Police Corporal Antwon Plott.
The cemetery service began with LPD Chief Sean Holdiness offering a welcome and leading the service in prayer. Holdiness and Louisville Mayor Will Hill, then presented Officer Jordan's badge and a copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of Aldermen, in her honor, to her sister, Denise Scott.
Rev. Mike Dowd, of Whitehall U.M. Church presented a short message, taking a reading from Joshua 4:4-8, and spoke of the importance of law enforcement officers, and the need to remember those who have fallen.
At the conclusion of the service, members of each agency made their way to the grave sites of Cooper, McLeod and Clay to lay a wreath in remembrance of these dedicated public servants. The LPD officers then traveled to Union Chapel M.B. Church to honor Officer Jordan.
