Columbus Police Memorial

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Columbus Police Memorial
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Columbus Police Memorial
Coordinates 39°57′32.7″N83°0′19.9″W / 39.959083°N 83.005528°W / 39.959083; -83.005528 Coordinates: 39°57′32.7″N83°0′19.9″W / 39.959083°N 83.005528°W / 39.959083; -83.005528
Location Genoa Park, Columbus, Ohio, United States

The Columbus Police Memorial is a memorial in Columbus, Ohio's Genoa Park, United States. [1] It has inscriptions of the names of police officers killed while serving, [2] and serves as a gathering site for memorial services. [3] Its dedication ceremony was held on 26 May 2000. [4]

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The original drawings for the design was made by Thomas Raymond Hayes, [5] a civilian police artist who became paralyzed during his service as a police officer in 1979 when he sustained a gunshot wound in the back while arresting two drugged teenagers. [6] His name was also etched into the memorial after his death at the age of 61 on 20 January 2011, [6] which was ruled a homicide by the Franklin County Coroner in March 2011. [5]

Description

The monument is approximately 15 feet (4.6 m) wide and 10 feet (3.0 m) tall, made out of Barre Gray granite with polished black standard inserts. [7] Atop the center of its base stands a tapering pillar crowned by a bronze Columbus Division of Police badge with a black mourning band. [4] A plaque beneath the badge reads as follows: [4]

SERVED FAITHFULLY
SACRIFICED VALIANTLY
REMEMBERED ETERNALLY
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF OUR
FELLOW COLUMBUS POLICE OFFICERS
THIS 26th DAY OF MAY 2000

Three back-to-back rectangular slabs, bricked up in the base and inscribed with white lettering, list the names of police officers who have died in the line of duty. [8] The name of Columbus SWAT officer Steven M. Smith is currently the last (56th) among them after being engraved on May 11, 2016; he was shot in Clintonville on April 10 of that year and succumbed to his injuries three days later. [1]

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