Police and members of the public lined up out the door of a Bloomfield funeral home and around a corner this afternoon to pay their respects to a Pittsburgh officer gunned down with two colleagues on Saturday.

The visitation at the Winter Funeral Home for Officer Paul J. Sciullo II was the first of several scheduled visitations and memorials set for the fallen officers. In coming days, services will also be held for Officers Eric Kelly and Stephen J. Mayhle, with a memorial set for all three in Oakland on Thursday.

At the funeral home, 14 motorcyle officers visited and then drove away together. Forty SWAT officers in olive green uniforms marched down a sidewalk to join the line, which snaked down Friendship Avenue and around a corner.

And soon afterward, all nine city council members showed up together.

As many as 1,000 police agencies from across the United States and Canada are expected to participate in the Thursday procession and memorial.

Police Chief Nate Harper at a press conference today announced more details for the public remembrance the officers, who were killed while responding to a domestic dispute in the city's Stanton Heights neighborhood Saturday morning. Richard Poplawski, who was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police, has been charged with the deaths.

Chief Harper said he has heard from police forces that will be sending representatives to the memorial, including Oakland, Calif., where four officers were killed last month. Boston will fly 100 officers to Pittsburgh.

"We are getting a lot of condolences from many people throughout the country," he said.

The chief and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, speaking at police headquarters, said there will be a private viewing for law enforcement officials at the City-County Building, Downtown, from 3 to 4 p.m. Wednesday.

Starting at 4 and continuing overnight until 10 a.m. Thursday, members of the public may pass by the officers' coffins.

Mr. Ravenstahl said arrangements will be similar to those for Mayor Bob O'Connor, who died in office.

From 11 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, private viewing will be held for family members. Then the procession begins from the City-County Building to the Petersen Events Center on the Pitt campus in Oakland. The exact route has not been determined.

All details for the 1 p.m. memorial have not been worked out.

The officers have been awarded purple hearts and medals of valor, officials said.

The city also announced that all of its offices would be closed at 2 p.m. Wednesday and all day Thursday. They were already to be closed for Good Friday.

City Council has canceled all official business this week.

A special meeting on a zoning matter and a public hearing on proposed ethics reform changes that had been set for today will be rescheduled.

Tomorrow, council will gavel in its regular legislative meeting for the sole purpose of honoring the officers, Council President Doug Shields' office announced, but it will conduct no other business. The regular Wednesday council committee meeting is canceled.

Public hearings set for tomorrow and Wednesday on zoning matters will be rescheduled.

Council members met early today and felt it was important that they spent time in the community, staff at Mr. Shields' office said.

Gov. Ed Rendell today ordered all Pennsylvania flags on state-owned buildings across the state to be flown at half-staff from now through April 11 to honor the officers.