Friday, September 17, 1999
Chiefs urge new site for memorial
N.Ky. cops favor bigger, safer spot
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON - Northern Kentucky's police chiefs are collecting donations to renovate the police memorial into a bigger spot they say will better honor their dead and more safely allow visitors to look it over.
The Northern Kentucky Police Chief's Association and Southbank Partners want $350,000 for the project — $100,000 of that to build a perpetual maintenance fund. Letters from both groups, extolling the virtues of the expanded site near the Suspension Bridge, are circulating now.
The current site at Second and Court streets poses a few problems, proponents of the expansion say, including that it isn't safe. Without any kind of traffic control, visitors have to cross Third Street to reach the memorial.
Services at the site also can be dangerous, they say, because people attending have to spill out onto Third Street because the memorial has too little space around it.
“There would literally be days we'd have to park a cruiser in the traffic lane to keep people from being hit,” said Covington Police Lt. Col. Bill Dorsey.
The new plaza would be larger, with the granite memo rial in the center of a landscaped seating area farther north toward the bridge. More than 100 people could fit around it for events, promoters say.
The changes also would prevent people from using the area for a shortcut to the bridge walkway, they say.
The memorial got a lot of use last year after the death of Covington Officer Mike Partin. That, Lt. Col. Dorsey hopes, helped prompt the push for a bigger, renovated memorial.
“This way, we'll have a place to sit and think about things,” he said. “And with everything going on in the Rivercenter area, there'll be people from out of town who want to come see it.”
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