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This blurb might answer your question. Good luck to you in whatever field you decide to pursue.

The ODMP maintains a detailed list of criteria.

The site lists law enforcement and prison officers from all levels of government who have died in the line of duty due to criminal violence, accident, injury, illness or natural causes as well as those who are killed off duty if they are targeted for their law enforcement affiliations or if they are acting at the time in an official capacity to protect the safety or property of others.

Military investigators or special agents are included if working for official investigation services, as are other military personnel - including military police and peacekeepers if they are engage in law enforcement at the time of their deaths.

The ODMP does not list deaths that result from such factors as officer misconduct, the influence of voluntarily-imbibed alcohol or controlled substances, suicide, or officer negligence. It also excludes deaths caused by off-duty car accidents or private service to a security company or private military company.

So they count Navy, Air force and Army, FBI, Port Authority, CID, Secret Service, NSA, I guess the CIA, everything and everybody.

I think when most citizens want to know about policemen deaths, they mean policemen and Deputy Sheriffs.

"Military investigators or special agents are included if working for official investigation services, as are other military personnel - including military police and peacekeepers if they are engage in law enforcement at the time of their deaths."

So U.S. Army MPs and other military police were included in the number, 22,084. That's clever.

Civilian police are not members of our military forces. There are some police who try to outwardly emulate members of our military forces in some ways, but they are nowhere near the same and won't be the same. Many of them don't even like men with prior service (been there, seen it from from the inside and outside many times).

Yes, many of us were trained to kill foreign enemies--some of us face to face. Yet being what we are and despite what some of us have seen from police in previous encounters, at our next meeting with civilian police, we're also more often polite and cooperative when needed.

Memorial Day is even a day of sadness (and maybe some guilt) for some of us who were discharged alive to enjoy some of the comforts of civilians after the service.

Memorial Day is for those who died while serving in our armed forces--many of them lonely and long away from their loved ones.