Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Michael Daniel called for heal­ing at the fu­ner­al for mur­dered WPC Rack­el Kipps on Fri­day.

Kipps was at­tached to Daniel's of­fice in the North­ern Di­vi­sion and he de­scribed her as an ex­em­plary em­ploy­ee, who while cu­ri­ous and some­times teas­ing was al­ways will­ing to work.

The St Joseph Ro­man Catholic Church was filled be­yond ca­pac­i­ty for the ser­vice as fam­i­ly mem­bers as well as sev­er­al of Kipps' col­leagues, most no­tably a con­tin­gent from her pass­ing out batch of 2014 at­tend­ed.

Kipps was shot dead on Sun­day by PC Michael Youk­see, the fa­ther of her two-year-old daugh­ter Re­nee. Youk­see then took his own life.

Rel­a­tives of Youk­see, in­clud­ing his broth­er, al­so at­tend­ed the fu­ner­al.

In happier times: Police officers Kevin Youksee and Rakel Kipps. Kipps was shot dead by Youksee, before he turned the gun on himself.

Daniel al­lud­ed to the trou­ble Kipps faced in re­cent month, not­ing that while she had made a com­plaint he stressed that noth­ing could be done about the sit­u­a­tion now.

Kipps rel­a­tives said Youk­see had beat­en the woman at a fam­i­ly wed­ding which prompt­ed her to file an of­fi­cial re­port. Youk­see's ser­vice firearm was tak­en away from him.

"Now is the time for heal­ing, there are two chil­dren who will nev­er un­der­stand what hap­pened. Noth­ing can be done now. Let the heal­ing process be­gin," said Daniel.

Of­fi­ci­at­ing priest, Fa­ther Brent Alex­is, ac­knowl­edged that while there was anger as a re­sult of the man­ner of Kipps' pass­ing, mourn­ers should now fo­cus on heal­ing.

"In re­al­i­ty, there are no words, all we can re­al­ly do with you this morn­ing is join you in your feel­ings, in what you are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing at this mo­ment be­cause, in re­al­i­ty, it makes no sense. Peo­ple can come up here and say all the beau­ti­ful things about what hap­pened and it will nev­er ful­ly solve and an­swer the ques­tions, so we join you in your anger and frus­tra­tion to­day," said Alex­is, who ad­mit­ted that he too had to con­sult an­oth­er priest and a psy­chol­o­gist when he learned that he had been of­fi­ci­at­ing the fu­ner­al ser­vice.

WPC Kipps' sis­ter, Shanaya, dur­ing a joint eu­lo­gy, asked that peo­ple re­mem­ber what her sis­ter stood for, recit­ing the words of one of her last Face­book posts.

"Let oth­ers say what they want about you, deep down you know who you are, the Almighty knows it too, he al­so knows what you stand for so there's no need to jus­ti­fy any­thing to any­one, be the best per­son you can un­der any giv­en cir­cum­stances. Strive for this," read Shanaya.

An unidentified colleague of murdered WPC Rackel Kipps breaks down during the procession following her funeral service at the St Joseph R.C. Church, Corner of King and Abercromby Street, St Joseph.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Her aunt Lisa, who al­so de­liv­ered a part of the eu­lo­gy, sim­i­lar­ly hoped that the neg­a­tive feel­ing would not linger.

"One of the main rea­sons, may be the on­ly rea­son we can give thanks dur­ing bad cir­cum­stances that aren't good is that we can trust in the Lord who loves us, he will work it out for our good.

Some­thing good is go­ing to come out of this sit­u­a­tion that is how I look at it, this is what is mov­ing me, this is what is push­ing me, this is what is dri­ving me, some­thing good is go­ing to come from this," she said, while en­cour­ag­ing women to reach out and speak with friends when they are fac­ing prob­lem­at­ic sit­u­a­tions.

Fol­low­ing the ser­vice, a 21-gun salute and pro­ces­sion were held in ho­n­our of WPC Kipps. She was buried at the St Joseph Ceme­tery.