Fishers Police are preparing to move into a new headquarters building next year, and the department is asking for the public’s help in documenting the history of local policing. Fishers law enforcement’s history dates all the way back to 1976.
Some people still living in and around Fishers have been around since the local area was just a small farm community, while many others have just become part of the community very recently. All are asked to help.
There are some people who have since retired from the city and many of you may still be in contact with those former residents. Local authorities are encouraging an outreach to those people.
If you have digital photographs, those can be easily emailed to local police. For older photographs that are not digital, police can scan those pictures and then return them. The photographs will be cataloged in a database. Please have the name of who took the picture. If the picture is used or displayed, police want to make sure that proper credit is given to who took the picture. If not available, it will be used and labeled unknown.
If you run across pictures of police officers, cars, events, etc. that you may have taken over the years, local officers very much want to see them.
For physical items of historical significance, there are two options. If you have something that you don’t want anymore, you can donate it and police will give you a receipt for the item. If it is something that you don’t want to donate, we can take it on loan and give it back to you at an agreed upon time. Officers are interested in looking at anything that you have.
If you have anything to submit, email Robert Bowling at bowlingr@fishers.in.us or Tom Brooks at brookst@fishers.in.us.