Tampa Police Memorial


Officer Rolla Standau, Jr.

November 29, 1963


Officer Standau, 22, had crossed the Holtsinger Bridge heading south on North Boulevard when a car hit his motorcycle head-on at Union Street killing the patrolman of one and a half years.

Officer Standau, whose father and namesake also served as an officer, had been recommended for a Medal of Honor for saving a drowning man in the Hillsborough River.

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