On July 10, 2001, Sergeant Dan R. Starnes of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department lost his life as a result of gunshot wounds sustained during a gun battle with a suspect in a burglary which occurred four weeks earlier. To keep Dan’s memory alive his wife, Janice organized the annual Sergeant Dan R. Starnes Memorial Blood Drive in Morgan County.  In 2007, she decided to take the blood drive statewide and renamed it the Indiana Fallen Officers Blood Drive.  This month the 2012 drive begins with donation sites statewide.

Indiana Blood Facts:
- Over a 1,000 units of blood are needed daily in Indiana.
- Each unit of  donated blood helps with three different components :
- Red Cells
- Platelets
- Plasma 

The Indiana State Police Peru District is comprised of Cass, Fulton, Howard, Grant, Miami, Wabash, and Tipton Counties. Listed below are dates, times, and locations for the blood drives within the Peru District.

County Date Time Location
Cass July 26, 2012 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Logansport Mall, 3900 E Market, (Logansport)
Fulton July 24, 2012 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. St Joseph Parish Hall, 1310 N Main St.(Rochester)
Miami  June 27, 2012 12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Bunker Hill United Methodist Church, 100 W Broadway (Bunker Hill)
Tipton August 8, 2012 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. C W Mount Community Center, 341 W Jefferson, (Tipton)
Wabash June 19, 2012 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. First United Methodist Church ,110 N Cass St, (Wabash)
Wabash June 19, 2012 12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Manchester Church of Brethren, 1306 Beckley, (Nor