President Barack Obama signed a new law requiring improved disseminating of information for police officers at risk in public.

The "Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015," or S. 665, creates a communication network for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to better streamline information if one of their own is physically at risk, becomes missing, injured or dead.

According to a statement from the White House press secretary office, S. 665 requires the DOJ to establish "a national Blue Alert communications network to disseminate information on: the serious injury or death of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty; an officer who is missing in connection with the officer's official duties; or an imminent and credible threat that an individual intends to cause the serious injury or death of a law enforcement officer."

The law is named after two New York Police Department (NYPD) officers who were shot while sitting in their patrol car. Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjian Liu, 32, were shot by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, on Dec. 28, 2014 in Brooklyn. Tens of thousands of police officers from across the nation attended their funerals.

As Latin Post reported, leading up to the shooting, the NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Brinsley had posted anti-police and anti-government messages on his Instagram account in light of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed African-American men who were killed by white police officers. The two white cops were not charged in their deaths.

Obama signed the law shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday, with Liu's parents and Ramos' wife and two sons standing by the president's side. Vice President Joe Biden was also in attendance.

"[Ramos and Liu] were serving their community with great honor and dedication and courage, and all of New York grieved and all of the nation grieved," said Obama ."It was a reminder of the incredibly difficult and dangerous work that so many of our law enforcement officers are engaged in every single day.

"[It] is important for us to make sure that we do everything we can to help ensure the safety of our police officers when they're in the line of duty, and this legislation ... represent I think the best of a bipartisan support for law enforcement," Obama later added. "What this legislation is going to do is to initiate a Blue Alert System so that when we know there is an active threat against law enforcement, that the alerts are going out at a comprehensive and expeditious way. That prevents the possibility that other officers may be caught by surprise and it ensures that appropriate steps can be taken as quickly as possible."

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