P.O. Santos Valentin

Fallen at the World Trade Center
September 11, 2001

Police Officer Santos Valentin Jr., 39, was appointed to the NYPD on January 4, 1984, and began his career on patrol in Neighborhood Stabilization Unit 4. Prior to being assigned to ESU 7 in March 1996, he worked in the 19th Precinct and the Street Crime Unit.

A graduate of the Academy of Aeronautics, he was a mechanic before joining the NYPD. He was a longtime member of the Boy Scouts of America, where he had risen to the rank of Life Scout. His hobbies included golf, fishing, gun collecting, aeronautics, camping, and white-water rafting.

He is survived by his parents Gloria and Santos Sr.; sisters Alida, Denise and Rosa; and brothers Eduardo and Elliott. Denise is an NYPD sergeant assigned to the Patrol Borough Manhattan South.