No Police Officer or Firefighter should be laid to rest without the honor of Pipes & Drums. 

It was with that in mind that the Essex County Emerald Society Pipes & Drums was founded 25 years ago.  Over the past 25 years the band has established a great reputation nationwide and overseas.  The band has held strong to the founding principles of the Emerald Society itself, we are solely police officers & career firefighters and we have no plans to stray from that philosophy.