The department in 2004 started the Downtown Citizens-Police Initiative, or D.C.P.I., and set up shop in space offered by and adjoining T R Motor Plex at 43 S. Main St.
The first of the displays pays tribute to former assistant Chief of Police Clyde Case, who served from 1942 to 1968 and is father of City Councilman Charlie Case.
“The Case family has a long history of public service in this community,” said Mayor Dick Church Jr., during a dedication Oct. 7. “Clyde Case was quite a policeman, a very dedicated individual who knew a lot about the community.”
Early in his career, Church worked for Case as a dispatcher.
“He was little, but he had a rough voice, and he always called me Dickie, and he’d say, ‘Dickie!,’ and I knew I was in trouble.”
Charlie and Murielene Case, and their sons, Chris and Steve and wife, Gina, and grandchildren, Mitch, 15, Brad, 15, and Danielle, 13, attended the event.
“I’m honored for my father. My father was a very dedicated individual to the police department and the city of Miamisburg, and he would be very proud of this moment,” Charlie Case said. “He just wouldn’t let on that he was.”
Sedlak said the D.C.P.I. was created “to help clean up some of the perception of crime in the area and the actual crime that occurred here.”
Since its inception, crime in eight targeted categories dropped 87 percent. He thanked the city and the Miamisburg Spring Fling Committee and Miamisburg Fraternal Order of Eagles 2306 for financial support. He thanked also Rita and Joe Harrison for the office space.
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