Overview

• Runners, officers, and families gathered outside Tampa Police Headquarters on Saturday for a 5K and one-mile walk routed through downtown and Bayshore.
• Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw called the event “community policing at its finest,” emphasizing how it brings residents and officers together.
• Thirty-two officers ran side by side wearing armbands with the names of fallen colleagues as the community paid tribute.
• Officer Ashly Bell, daughter of Detective Randy Bell who was killed in 1998, serves on the memorial committee and wears his badge number in his memory.
• Organizers reported a strong turnout from across the community, and the department said it plans to continue the tradition next year.