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Her Majesty The Queen Also present was Anthony Rae, founder and director of the Police Roll of Honour Trust, which has provided, on behalf of the Police Memorial Trust, the book containing the inscribed Roll of Honour of names of police officers killed in their hazardous duty. This book, which is behind the glass panel in the memorial, is the product of 25 years research and starts with an unknown constable killed in 1680. There are nearly 1,600 names recorded, of those officers unlawfully killed while in the execution of their duty, or in the course of effecting an arrest or the performance of acts of gallantry or other hazardous duty, taken from the 4,000 names on the National Police Officers Roll of Honour of officers who have died in the line of duty. The glass
pillar, part of the Memorial, will be lit with a delicate, barely
perceptible, blue illumination, recognising the blue light of the
lamp that used to be outside all police stations telling the public
the police were always ready to serve. The Memorial, 21 years in
the making, will stand as a lasting tribute to all the police
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HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR THE MEMORIAL
SIGNED COPIES OF THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO DONORS
Click Here for Further Details
1984 - Twenty one years in the making - 2005
A message from Michael Winner
Twenty one years ago I was deeply moved by the senseless murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher. It seemed unfair the police had no public memorials to commemorate their bravery when they faced danger every day. So I formed The Police Memorial Trust to place memorials to officers slain on duty at the spot where they died to pay tribute to them and to the police of our nation. We now have twenty-nine memorials throughout the land.
I also thought the police deserved a National Police Memorial in a significant place in our capital city. I acquired for The National Police Memorial the finest site in London, on the comer of The Mall and Horse Guards. The Memorial has been designed by Lord Norman Foster. There is a large vent for London Underground which cannot be removed. This is being clad in marble and covered in creeper similar to that on the wall behind it. One face will remain open. It will have engravings and show a book with the names of police officers slain on active duty. There's a paved area with a small pool and a glass column which will be lit with a blue hue representing the blue light that was outside police stations advising the police were always on duty.
I hope you will wish to honour your own police service and your police officers who died in the course of their duty. In years to come if your children or grandchildren ask if you took any part in the building of the National Police Memorial I hope you'll be able to say, "Yes, I gave some money toward it".
Donations
for the National Police Memorial should be made direct to the Police Memorial
Trust at:
219, Kensington High Street, London, W8 6BD
(Please mark envelopes PROHT)
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Work nears completion on Memorial to Police Killed on Duty Work is progressing well on the National Police Memorial which is being constructed in central London. The £2.3m project includes a large black wall with a glass cabinet displaying a book which names the officers, and should be complete in The Mall before the year end. |
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It was organised by the Police Memorial Trust, a charity set up by Michael Winner following the shooting of Pc Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in 1984. Michael Winner has campaigned for it to be built for 13 years.
The film director, who put £500,000 of his own money into the project, said he was "absolutely delighted" that building work was under way. He said: "I am highly hopeful that people will say: 'The police are out there, dying for us and leaving very distraught families'. Memorials to soldiers, sailors and airmen were commonplace. But the police fight a war with no beginning and no end."
The Queen is expected to unveil the memorial when it is completed.
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Groundbreaking by the Prime Minister |
On 22nd July 2004
the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the UK's first ever
national police memorial was performed by the Prime Minister, Tony
Blair accompanied by Michael Winner, with the police service represented
by constables from two forces that have lost more officers than
others in recent years: Lynn Bialowas from Greater
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The National Police Memorial
The National Police Memorial is at last a reality. Planning permission was granted by Westminster Council for the construction of a national memorial to police officers who have died in the course of duty following a thirteen-year campaign by the film director Michael Winner, Chairman and Founder of The Police Memorial Trust. The memorial designed by Foster and Partners in association with the Danish visual artist Per Arnoldi is sited at Cambridge Green at the north-eastern junction of The Mall and Horse Guards Road in front of the Old Admiralty Building.
The cost, including building and future maintenance is expected to be in excess of £2 million and The Police Memorial Trust is appealing for help to raise funds. "We would love to have some help from anyone who reads this site" said Mr Winner.
Since 1984 Trust has established 29 memorials to 33 individual officers around the country.
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The national monument, designed by Sir Norman Foster, will consist of two distinct elements. A book listing the names of officers killed on duty will be displayed in a vitrine (glass show case) within a dark stone wall. This wall, which will also carry an inscription and the police’s badge of office, will form one side of a rectangular enclosure concealing the concrete London Underground vent shaft that currently occupies the site. The other three sides will be faced in the same dark stone and covered almost entirely in creeper similar to that covering the walls of the adjacent citadel. |
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The site prior to work commencing |
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Nearby will be a tall transparent wall of glass sited in a reflecting pool and gently illuminated with blue light. The glass wall represents the blue lamp once displayed outside every police station in Britain and still regarded as a symbol of the police and their readiness to serve. The glass wall provides a degree of shelter so that those visiting the memorial may do so in an appropriate setting for contemplation, and it also acts as a symbol for the project. The two elements are linked by Purbeck stone paving.
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Artist's impression of the finished Memorial |
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The project had the full backing of police forces and authorities, the Association of Chief Police Officers, The Police Federation and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Mr Winner, 66, said he would personally turn the pages of the book from time to time so that some new names would be shown. When another officer dies their name will be displayed on a single page for a week or so.
HONOURING HEROES
Whilst honouring all those who serve, the Memorial will pay a special tribute to Police Officers killed in the execution of their hazardous duty by recording their names on a Roll of Honour to be on permanent view at the site.
The Police Roll of Honour Trust is working closely with Michael Winner to ensure the names of all UK police officers killed in the execution of their hazardous duty are recorded at the National Police Memorial. To this end we shall be providing the Roll for inclusion in a Book of Honour to be on permanent view at the site.
We also hope eventually to have the names of the fallen officers engraved in stone at the memorial as a permanent and visible reminder of their sacrifice in the public service.
For Further Details, including the criteria for inclusion, go to the
National
Police Memorial
Roll
of Honour
of
Police Officers of the United Kingdom
Who have Lost their
Lives
In the Execution of their Duty
As the result of Criminal Acts or
In
the Course of Effecting an Arrest or
In the Performance of Acts of Gallantry
or
Other Hazardous Duty
Enquiries
Any enquiries regarding the National Police Memorial should be made direct to the following:
Chairman: Michael Winner
MA(Cantab)
Secretary: John Fraser MA(Oxon) MPhil
Registered
Office: 219, Kensington High Street, London, W8 6BD
Telephone:
020 7734 8385
Fax: 0207 602 9217
Donations
Any Donations
for the National Police Memorial should be made direct to the Police Memorial
Trust at the above address.
(Please mark envelopes - 'PROHT')
Last updated 28th April 2005
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Police Roll of Honour Trust
Registered Charity No. 1081637
enquiries@policememorial.org.uk
