A police department in Laconia, N.H., formed a heart with their cruisers outside a local hospital in honor of staff that are continuing to work on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.

In photos posted on Facebook by the Laconia Police Department on Sunday, nine police cruisers could be seen parked outside the Lakes Region General Hospital, arranged in the shaped of a heart. The officers were also joined by local firefighters and EMT staff during the demonstration, according local station WMUR9.

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The police department said in the Facebook post that they organized the show of support for healthcare workers and that they invited their “friends from the Laconia Fire Department to join in the effort in order to put a smile on the faces of these Heroes during one of their evening shift changes.”

“All of these hard-working medical professionals are truly on the front lines and are the heart and soul in this battle against this deadly virus,” the department wrote, adding: “We appreciate our medical professionals and are honored and proud to support them!”

Kevin Donovan, who serves as CEO president of LRGHealthcare, told WMUR9 on Sunday that hospital staff appreciated the gesture from local first responders.

“They're about taking care of each other, they're about supporting each other, it's about showing each other and coming together to take care of everybody,” he told the station. “It's just really nice.”

“What a great way to show our appreciation,” Matt Canfield, chief of the local police department, also told the station of the display. “This all about them. This is all about our health care workers. They're the ones on the front line of this whole pandemic.”

Canfield told the station that the department was inspired to organize the effort after another police department in Florida threw together a similar display earlier this month.

According to Good Morning America, the Fort Myers Police Department also arranged 15 cruisers into a heart outside the Lee Memorial Hospital a week back in honor of staff that had been working on the coronavirus frontlines.