hereSir Hugh Orde, chairman of the Police Arboretum Memorial Trust, said: "The National Memorial Arboretum is the place where all our services are remembered throughout the year."A place where people come for quiet acts of contemplation and reflection and a place where large-scale acts of remembrance take place."Yet there is no fitting tribute here that honours those brave men and women from our police service who have given their lives to protect us all - a tribute that is in keeping with the scale of loss that our police service has suffered over the years."Today is the day that we change that."How fitting that today's ground-breaking will be carried out by Paul Bone and Bryn Hughes, whose daughters were shot and killed whilst responding.
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