By Police1 Staff
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A North Las Vegas officer turns blocks of wood into pieces of art for his fallen brothers and sisters.
Officer Noah Bennett carves memorial plaques for fallen officers in his garage, Fox5 Vegas reported.
“We put it together all by hand,” Bennett said. “I cannot even count the number of plaques that we’ve done.”
He told the news station every memorial is different because every officer is unique.
“We don’t like doing the same one for everybody,” he said. “We don’t believe it gives that same touch.”
His work became personal after his colleague and friend Det. Chad Parque was killed in a crash with a wrong-way driver on Jan. 8.
“He was a great officer. He was a go-getter,” Bennett said. “That was his goal: to bring the bad guys to justice.”
According to CBS News, Bennett, and wife Rosonna Garvey, have been hand delivering the plaques to families of fallen officers since they began in 2012.
Each plaque takes around 60 hours to make and, if put up for sale, would cost between $500 and $600, Fox5 reported.
“When I talk to the friends and family members at the funerals, they say to me that it just means so much to them because of the time, the heart, and the love we put into the plaques,” Bennett said. “We’re not doing this for profit.”