Monday, April 6, 1998 | 10:23 a.m.
Police officers in a 50-car procession will make their way from Las Vegas to Carson City in a 450-mile trek to deliver a life-size bronze memorial honoring slain Nevada police officers.
The Nevada Highway Patrol will lead the procession, which leaves Wednesday morning on the two-day trip.
The bronze memorial is being delivered to Carson City in preparation for the May 18 national law-enforcement memorial ceremony in Washington, D.C. Carson City will hold its own ceremony the same day.
The procession will depart at 9 a.m. on Las Vegas Boulevard South to begin its way north to Lake Mead Boulevard, west to Rancho Road, then north to U.S. 95.
About 2 p.m. it is expected to arrive at the Stion House hotel-casino in Tonapah, where officers will spend the night. At 8 a.m. on Thursday, NHP troopers from the Northern Region will then lead the procession north. The group plans to arrive at the State Capitol Building in Carson City about 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, according to the itinerary.
Officers with law enforcement agencies in Southern Nevada will begin the drive from the Metro Police Communications Center on Las Vegas Boulevard South. Fifty police vehicles from 22 law enforcement agencies throughout the state are expected to make up the procession as it winds north, according to Samuel Smith, president of the North Las Vegas Police Officers Association.
The law-enforcement memorial will be delivered on a semi-truck flatbed trailer, he said.
The memorial is a full-size bronze statue of an injured officer being assisted by a fellow officer. Behind the two officers is a list of names of all Nevada officers killed in the line of duty.
"The sole purpose of this event is to honor those brother law-enforcement officers whose names are listed on the memorial," Smith said.
As the procession passes through different counties, various law enforcement agencies will join. Besides the NHP and police departments, also included are representatives from sheriff's departments throughout the state, Clark County School District Police, the U.S. Marshal's office and federal agents with the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office in Nevada.
"This is the first time we've ever done anything like this," NHP Trooper Steve Harney said. "It will be a very touching ceremony."
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