Police Officer Kelley L. Smythe, Tulsa Police Department, Oklahoma

Police Officer Kelley L. Smythe

Tulsa Police Department, Oklahoma

End of Watch Friday, March 26, 1982

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Kelley L. Smythe

Police Officer Kelley Smythe and Police Officer Chance Whiteman were killed in a helicopter accident while assisting patrol officers during a car chase.

Dispatchers lost contact with the helicopter during the chase. It was later discovered to have struck a tree and crashed near 66th Street and Lakewood Avenue.

The helicopter program was only ten days old at the time of the accident.

Officer Smythe had served with the Tulsa Police Department for four years.

Bio

Age 25
Tour 4 years
Badge Not available

Incident Details

Cause Aircraft accident

pursuit

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Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; fill them with wisdom for the decisions they face; give them courage to handle the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be.

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