Deputy Added to Memorial Wall (SB Sun 051206) Ceremony Honors Two Killed on Duty...

This last year has seen a lot of Deputies, and Officers seen the end of their career, and their Permanent EOW's. Most of that resorts back to their training, and possibly lack of training. It could be a faulty training that was given by a training Officer that you had, but you have to change your method of doing things and see to it that you show others out to be safer. Out on the Job. After all it doesn't take but a fraction of a second and you are dead. Later you are standing before the City Review Board or the Shooting review Board and they decode to take your firearm privileges away. .

Training is your lifesaver and your friend. Use it!! Train on something every day!!

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Deputies added to memorial wall Ceremony honors two killed on duty Joe Nelson, Staff Writer

Sheriff's deputies Greg Gariepy and Daniel Lobo Jr. worked in stations on opposite ends of San Bernardino County. They didn't really know each other. But they share a tragic bond. Both deputies died in 2005 in unrelated traffic accidents while responding to calls for help. During a special ceremony Wednesday in a courtyard at the Sheriff's Department headquarters in San Bernardino, Gariepy's and Lobo's names joined a list of eight other deputies killed in the line of duty since 1960. "We're here to pay tribute to Greg Gariepy and Daniel Lobo, who made the ultimate sacrifice," Sheriff Gary Penrod said. Gariepy had been with the sheriff's Morongo Basin station in Joshua Tree for two years after serving 20 years in the Marines. He died on June 22 after his patrol car veered off Highway 247 and overturned, ejecting him, as he was en route to assist another deputy on a call. "These individuals were part of the county family," said 2nd District Supervisor Paul Biane. "As the men and women of our county go out to work, sometimes they don't come home, and that's what brings us here today." Gariepy is survived by his wife, Mishelle, and three children Annette , Brett and Brooke. Lobo an 11-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department was a motorcycle deputy assigned to Rancho Cucamonga. He died on Oct. 11 after striking a motorcyclist who pulled out in front of him while Lobo was responding to a traffic accident with several other deputies. He is survived by his wife, Jennifer, and three daughters, Kiley , 14, Kadie , 10, and Maddison , 1. Capt. Pete Ortiz, commander of the sheriff's Rancho Cucamonga station, said Lobo's death was like losing a member of his family. He said Lobo found his calling when he became a motorcycle deputy. "I think it was perhaps the happiest day when he got assigned motor patrol," Ortiz said, referring to Lobo as a "calm and cool professional." Lobo also was a practical joker who doted on his wife and children. He loved riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle and his dirt bike, Ortiz said. Lobo's daughter, Kiley, is a sheriff's Explorer Scout in Chino Hills, said Lobo's father, Daniel Lobo Sr. , 55, who has been a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for 23 years. "I don't know why my son got into law enforcement, but he had his mind made up," he said. "I feel honored that he wanted to take up the profession I did." The Frank Bland Memorial was built in 1988 to honor the former sheriff and six deputies killed in the line of duty. Wednesday's ceremony marked the first time the names of two deputies killed in the same year were added to the memorial. The ceremony was one of four peace-officer-memorial ceremonies occurring in California and the county over the last week. A ceremony honoring fallen officers and deputies statewide was held May 4 and 5 in Sacramento. A ceremony honoring fallen peace officers countywide was held Tuesday in Rancho Cucamonga, and a national ceremony honoring peace officers who have died in the line of duty across the country is planned next week in Washington.