Administered by City of Santa Ana Policeman's Association 700 Civic Center Drive Santa Ana California
Located Santa Ana Civic Center 700 Civic Center Drive Santa Ana California
Date:
1986. Dedicated Dec. 16, 1986
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995.
Image on file.
(On central panel, bottom:) REMEMBRANCE (On horse's saddle, lower right, in cursive script:) Tony Sheets 1986 (There is plaque with names of donors and Orange County officials on the top of the base in the rear; also tiles in a checkerboard pattern with the names and dates of officers killed on duty along with their badges) signed
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Summary:
The memorial consists of three free-standing relief panels on a rectangular base. The top surface of the base contains a checkerboard pattern of red granite and bronze tiles. Within the bronze tiles are names of officers killed on duty, birth and death dates and their badges. The central panel, which is the tallest, contains full-length figures of uniformed male and female officers. Both figures wears hats, trousers and short-sleeved shirts. The panel on the left contains a cowboy-hatted figure on horseback. He wears a gun on his proper left hip and a badge on the proper left side of his chest. The sun shines in the upper left corner of the panel. The panel on the right is divided into three sections. The sections contain, from left to right, a police car and helicopter, a uniformed officer on a motorcycle and a male officer holding a little girl. Her hair is in braids and she holds a doll.
