The UK Police Memorial hpnours the courage and sacrifice of those who have given their lives to UK plicing. The design embraces the Celtic spiritual concept of a thin place, where we step from one world to another. Contrasts in light and shade, the wild and the controlled, add to the experience of a serene yet powerful space.*
The central 12-metre-high brass structure represents the threshold to the dangerous places the Police must go, but sadly, from which some will never return. Leaf shaped apertures cut out of these screens give the impression of falling leaves, to represent service and sacrilfice, the imagery representing those fallen police officers and staff.*
*quoted from the 2023 edition of the National Memorial Arboretum handbook
I have never seen this Police Memorial, but the thinking is clever. A central 12-metre-high brass structure represents the threshold to the dangerous places the Police must go, but sadly, from which some will never return. Even if they do return, some will be irreversibly changed by what they saw.
The memorial is quite new. I think it is a clever concept.
The leaf-shaped holes feel rather autumnal though.
Can’t relate them to police.
The concept works for me.