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In Utah's history, 137 police officers have died in the line of duty. Their sacrifices were remembered in ceremonies this week.

"When a police officer puts on their belt, boots and badge and walks out the door, they put their life on hold," said Stephanie Elkins, a spokeswoman for the Utah Fraternal Order of Police auxiliary.

On Thursday, the Salt Lake City Police Department paid tribute to its 24 fallen officers. The latest was James Cawley, a detective and Marine reservist who died in 2003 in the Iraq war.

On Wednesday night, tribute was paid at the Utah Law Enforcement Memorial, on the west lawn of the Utah Capitol, to all of the 137 officers who have died in the line of duty since 1853, either in homicides or accidental death.

The most recent fallen officer was Utah County sheriff's Sgt. Cory Wride, who died Jan. 30, 2014. Wride was shot to death in Eagle Mountain by Jose Angel Garcia-Jauregui when Wride was checking on the truck Garcia-Jauregui was in, which was stopped on the road.

Garcia-Jauregui shot another Utah County sheriff's deputy in the head in Santaquin before officers fatally shot Garcia-Jauregui in Juab County. His second victim, Deputy Greg Sherwood, survived.

Jurors last week found Garcia-Jauregui's girlfriend, Meagan Dakota Grunwald, guilty of aggravated murder and attempted murder, as well as a number of other counts, for driving the truck from which her boyfriend fired on police.

ealberty@sltrib.com