The Columbus Police Memorial is a memorial in
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...
's
Genoa Park
Genoa Park is a urban park along the west bank of the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The park, located between Broad and Rich Streets as part of the Scioto Mile park grouping, is named after Genoa, the birthplace of Christopher C ...
, United States.
It has inscriptions of the names of police officers killed while serving, and serves as a gathering site for memorial services. Its dedication ceremony was held on 26 May 2000.
The original drawings for the design was made by Thomas Raymond Hayes,
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.
His name was also etched into the memorial after his death at the age of 61 on 20 January 2011,
which was ruled a homicide by the Franklin County Coroner in March 2011.
Description
The monument is approximately wide and tall, made out of
Barre Gray granite with polished black standard inserts. Atop the center of its base stands a tapering pillar crowned by a bronze
Columbus Division of Police
The Columbus Division of Police (CPD) is the main policing unit for the city of Columbus, Ohio, in the United States. It is the largest police department in the state of Ohio, and among the twenty-five largest in the United States.Based upon the ...
badge with a black mourning band.
A plaque beneath the badge reads as follows:
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.
The name of Columbus
SWAT
In the United States, a SWAT team (special weapons and tactics, originally special weapons assault team) is a police tactical unit that uses specialized or military equipment and tactics. Although they were first created in the 1960s to ...
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.
See also
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2000 in art
Events from the year 2000 in art.
Events
*February – Opening of the New Art Gallery Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
* 13 February – The final original ''Peanuts'' comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Char ...
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Ohio Police and Fire Memorial Park
References
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