Slain Officers Remembered as Heroes in War on Crime : Memorial: Hundreds attend separate services for two of the three investigators killed last week at D.C. police headquarters.

In a somber processional, hundreds of police cars, their blue lights flashing, coiled past the capital’s monuments Saturday after two fallen law enforcement officers were memorialized as heroes in the “war against evil.”

The caravan rolled past the Washington Monument within sight of the White House and circled police headquarters, where a Washington homicide sergeant and two FBI agents were fatally shot Tuesday afternoon.

A mile-and-a-half long, the motorcade paralyzed traffic as it accompanied the body of Police Sgt. Henry Joseph Daly to Arlington National Cemetery.

Memorial services were held in Virginia for Daly, 51, and in Maryland for slain FBI Agent Michael John Miller, 41. Also remembered Saturday was a third slain officer, FBI Agent Martha Dixon Martinez, 35, who will be buried near Pittsburgh, Pa., on Monday.

“Thank God for Michael, Martha and Hank, who were willing to serve,” FBI Director Louis J. Freeh said at Miller’s service.

The three officers were shot when 25-year-old Bennie Lee Lawson walked into the third-floor offices used by the “cold case” homicide squad and opened fire with a compact assault-style firearm, police said. Two other people were wounded. Lawson also died in the attack.

The slayings inside the supposedly safe environment of the police department shocked the city known as the nation’s murder capital for the past five years and prompted an outpouring of fellow officers from numerous jurisdictions.

As the crowd grew outside St. Phillip’s Church in Falls Church, Va., where Daly’s funeral Mass was held, a bystander commented: “There is no single church large enough for this.”

The church was filled. An honor guard of more than 100 remained outside during the ceremony. A spillover crowd of hundreds more watched a television relay at Falls Church High School.

In St. Phillip’s, the chaplain of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, Rev. Salvatore Criscuolo, said the shootings raise questions answerable only by God: “How could this happen? What is this city coming to?”

He focused on the character of the fallen officer, a 28-year veteran who for the past 13 years has been a member of the homicide division, supervising its “cold case” squad since its creation in 1991. The squad investigates murder cases that have long since grown “cold” from lack of progress.

D.C. Police Chief Fred Thomas said Daly “would want us all to continue this war against evil.”

In Maryland, it was standing room only at the Village Baptist Church, where Miller’s body lay, and at the equally crowded Catholic church next door, where an overflow crowd watched the service via closed-circuit television.

“He was for freedom from violence, representing the hopes and dreams of all of us--to be safe and free,” Freeh said.

Martinez, who recently married a fellow FBI agent, Jorge Martinez, was remembered by Freeh on Friday when he said: “She chose to work in the most difficult area of law enforcement, to work on the most frustrating cases, but yet the cases that had the most impact.”

Daly’s brother, Michael, a lieutenant in the Metro transit police, looked over the officers seated row on row in blue and brown and gray uniforms in Virginia, their badges--each bisected with a black ribbon--gleaming in the light from the windows.

“When a policeman dies, it is clear that while he has his own family and friends, he also has an extended family of all of those who carry a badge and a gun,” he said.