Members of the local law enforcement community are beginning a campaign to get a new monument in downtown Bellefontaine that would recognize the local officers killed in the line of duty.
This conceptual drawing produced for the Fraternal Order of Police Hi Point Lodge 60 shows the design of a police memorial being planned at the southwest corner of the Carnegie Building along the 100 block of north Main Street.The kocal law enforcement community is looking to raise $150,000 to complete the project
“The purpose of the memorial is to always remember these officers,” Bellefontaine Police Sgt. Allen Shields, who has been planning and organizing the memorial, said.
The Logan County Law Enforcement Memorial would be a 7-foot tall three panel granite wall with blue floodlights illuminating a statue of a kneeling police officer. There will also be two benches at the perimeter of the 20-by-26-foot oval stamped concrete base.
It will be located at the southwest corner of the Carnegie Building, where three flagpoles and the Ohio Bicentennial Bell are currently located. The flagpoles will remain, but Logan County Commissioners have already made plans to move the bell to the courthouse for display.
Commissioners are supporting the project and support the idea of placing the memorial on county-owned property on north Main Street near the intersection of Sandusky Avenue.
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