Officer Ramos and Officer Wenjian Liu were gunned down December 20 as they sat idle in their patrol car in Brooklyn. The gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, was soon located at a nearby subway station, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
During today’s service, Commissioner Bratton announced he was appointing Ramos as an honorary NYPD chaplain and posthumously promoting Ramos and Liu to the rank of first-grade detective.
The first-grade rank of detective is the highest designation of detective in the Police Department. It is not uncommon for police departments to extend this honor upon an officer killed in the line of duty.
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