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by Officer R.J. Cottle, a member of the department’s SWAT team. Cottle was also a sergeant major in the Marine Corps, and on March 24, 2010, Cottle was killed during a deployment in Afghanistan.
Chicago held a ceremony at the end of the memorial to hon- or Cottle, and LAPD presented their friends with a challenge coin minted in his honor. Since then, the two departments have been presenting challenge coins to each other whenever they lose an officer in the line of duty.
Thankfully, Los Angeles did not lose an officer in 2017. So Chicago’s retired officers had coins made to present to depart- ments from Rockford and Bloomingdale and the Illinois State Police, which each lost officers in 2017.
These weren’t ordinary challenge coins. In addition to being engraved with the name of the fallen officer on one side, the flip side showed the stars of the CPD
flag and featured other attributes
paying tribute to Chicago’s offi- cers. And inside, each coin includ- ed a knife, a file and some other tools similar to a Swiss Army knife.
“We’re here to make sure the Department is represented,” Du- gan reiterated.
And whether they have been retired for one or two years, or 20 years, clearly, they are still on the job, still serving and still doing their duty. d
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