The Jersey City Police Department will pay tribute tomorrow night to Police Officers Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen, who died tragically on Christmas night 12 years ago.

The memorial service, which has become an annual event for the department, will honor the memory of the two officers; a minute of silence will be observed at 8:04 p.m., representing the time when the officers died.

Carson and Nguyen were members of the emergency Service Unit. On Dec 25, 2005, their vehicle plunged into the Hackensack River from the Lincoln Highway Bridge.

The two officers were summoned to the Kearny side of the bridge to lay flares, but were unaware that the center portion of the drawbridge had been raised when they started to drive back to Jersey City.

The bridge was renamed in their honor in 2007.

Anyone wishing to attend the ceremony on Chirstmas night should meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Exxon Station on the corner of Route 440 and Communipaw Avenue.

There, attendees will be escorted up to the bridge. Police will close down one side of the bridge for the ceremony that starts at 8 p.m.