The Waukesha Police Department and the Waukesha Fire Department are seeking funds for a memorial honoring those lost in the line of duty to be located on the west side of City Hall.
The Finance Committee approved approximately $80,000 for the project in a unanimous vote Tuesday night.
Fire Battalion Chief Jim Haakenson and Police Lt. Kevin Rice advocated for the project on Tuesday.
“Several years ago we started reviewing our line of duty death policies and my focus at the PD has always been about wellness and peer supports and how do we support the officers during their career and after,” Rice said. “It came to my attention that we have two small memorials in front of our police department for George Schmidling and James Lutz, both killed in the line of duty here in the city, but we didn’t have something that would be a location for officers (or a family) to go and grieve if we would have a line of duty death (again).”