One San Jose police group service officer was killed and one other was critically injured Saturday evening after being struck by a driver suspected of being underneath the affect.
The crash occurred whereas the officers had been “conducting site visitors management for an unrelated incident on Monterey Highway,” the San Jose Police Division mentioned Sunday afternoon in an announcement posted on social media. The motive force was arrested on suspicion of driving underneath the affect.
The job of group service officer is a civilian place created in 2014; the officers reply to and examine lower-priority requires service, in keeping with the Police Division’s web site.
The division has not launched details about the identities of the officers or the motive force or different key particulars concerning the incident, together with whether or not costs had been filed, and precisely when and the place the crash occurred.
“Our whole police household is heartbroken by this line of obligation dying, and our collective arms are round his household, associates, and teammates as all of us address this painful incident,” the division mentioned.
“We’re additionally praying for our different CSO [community service officer] who suffered main accidents throughout the site visitors collision and remains to be hospitalized. Could she have a speedy restoration.”
A consultant for the San Jose Police Division’s media relations unit mentioned through e-mail that the division would supply extra info throughout a information convention at its headquarters at 3 p.m. Monday. The occasion will likely be streamed reside on the division’s Instagram web page.
“That is the primary CSO line-of-duty dying in SJPD historical past,” the Sunday assertion mentioned. “We pray it is going to be the final.”
