Honor for first NY policewoman to die on duty
Nassau's first female police officer and detective to be honored. Newsday Coverage.
More than four decades after New York state's first female police officer was killed in the line of duty, a bridge overpass near where she died is being renamed in her honor.
The president of the county's PBA, James Carver, says Reilly "exemplified what a police officer is all about. "
Gov. David Paterson says the overpass in Freeport will soon bear the name of Nassau County Police Department Detective Kathleen M. Reilly.
She died in a Christmas Day accident in 1967, while helping a distressed motorist on the Meadowbrook Parkway.
Reilly also was Nassau County's first female detective. The president of the county's PBA, James Carver, says Reilly "exemplified what a police officer is all about. "
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Posted Saturday, July 12, 2008
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