Waterloo regional police have launched an investigation into lacking memorial plaques, together with one which honoured the lifetime of a fallen police officer.
Police stated they don’t seem to be positive when the plaques disappeared from the Cambridge space, however it seemingly occurred inside the previous couple of weeks.
One of many lacking plaques commemorated the lifetime of Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) Constable David Nicholson and a 12-year-old boy he tried to save lots of.
Nicholson was killed in 1998. He was a part of an underwater staff looking for a younger boy, Mark Gage, at Parkhill Dam. Police imagine Nicholson discovered the boy, however was sucked right into a sluiceway and pinned. Nicholson’s lifeline snapped as greater than 50 first responders and bystanders tried to tug him to security. Each Nicholson and the boy drowned.
Nicholson was the primary police officer in WRPS’s historical past to die within the line of obligation. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Bravery and the Ontario Medal for Police Bravery.
A WRPS assertion concerning the incident stated: “The theft of memorial plaques is deeply troubling, disappointing and, understandably, very upsetting to the neighborhood.
Many native residents keep in mind the tragedy that unfolded that day when Constable David Nicholson made the final word sacrifice in makes an attempt to save lots of Mark Gage. Stealing a plaque that honours their lives – and any plaque honouring the lives of different native residents – is disrespectful and appalling. We need to guarantee the neighborhood that we’re investigating and ask anybody with data or any video footage to please contact us.”
