Falmouth's "unique and quirky" memorial to PC Andy Hocking, which will quite literally enable people to follow in his footsteps, is to be officially unveiled at a public ceremony next Friday morning, December 4.

A set of five bronze footprints set in granite are being installed across the Arwenack ward of Falmouth, which had been Andy's beat until his sudden and untimely death in March at the age of just 52. An invitation to walk Andy's beat one last time saw around 6,000 people descend on the town centre a week later in an unprecedented outpouring of grief and support for his family and colleagues.

Following Andy's funeral, thoughts turned to a lasting memorial and in August a Crowdfunding appeal saw the money raised to enable the footprints, which have been cast from Andy's actual work boots, to be designed, created and installed.

The memorials are currently being installed by Cormac, for free, outside Marks and Spencer, at Church Corner, on Pendennis Point and outside King Charles School. The final one has been laid outside the Municipal Buildings on The Moor and it is this one which will be officially unveiled at 11.30am next Friday by Chief Constable Shaun Sawyer and Falmouth's mayor, John Body. Afterwards Mr Sawyer will present the town with

Andy's shoulder badge, number 4270, in the presence of Andy's widow, Sally; daughters, Megan and Grace, and mother, Elizabeth O'Hagan.

The footprint memorials have the full backing of Andy's family. Falmouth BID manager, Richard Wilcox, who launched the fundraising appeal and came up with the initial idea, said: "We have the support of the family who thought the idea was a good one and we have liaised with them throughout.

"I am really, really pleased with the quality (of the footprints). It's a good example of Falmouth's community coming together once again - both in terms of supporting our Crowdfunding campaign and local businesses and artists who have given their expertise and time free of charge.

"I'm pleased that we have got to the stage where they are going in and the community can start seeing them. We have got what we feel is a really fitting memorial to all Andy was as a person and what he stood for. It is something that is fitting, suitably quirky and fits in with Falmouth - we do things a bit differently - and it's something that has been community led. We came up with the idea and the community has driven it forward."