Excerpts from: http://hamgallery.com/Tribute/W8AF/w8af.pdf
An article on Ralph, W8AF, Head of the Communications Division of the Cleveland Police Dept.

I had been in communications with former Cleveland Police CW operator Al Ondracek, W8LJI of Richfield, Ohio - DOB 14 Nov 1916. Al stated Cleveland Police Radio went QRT with CW in 1967 & he (Ondracek) retired in 1979. He is not desirous to assist on this communications project because of his health issues. Al did partially recall some CW frequencies that will be added. Ondracek is active on 40M CW once in a while and I shipped him as a courtesy an Ackerman Road State Highway Patrol Radio Manuscript 2/17/00 in hope to start a spark and no response,
-- I feel badly about that because of the history lost.

In September of 2010 I found comments by Bill Hess K8SGX in a extensive article called Growth of VHF-FM for NE Ohio. In it he explained details about Civil Defense growth on FM, its installations and Cleveland Police involvement. (CPD Operators) Ed Kissel, Al W8LJI, Ralph W8AF, Charlie Lohner W8RN, John Van Blargan W8VBU, Dave Eisenberger K8KEM, and Cy Whittingham. CPD radio HQ was located on the 5 floor at 2221 Payne Avenue Cleveland. Civil Defense activity was on 145.26 MHZ and a Six meter link was on 53.58 MHZ. The police employees maintained the equipment at CPD in the 1950s.