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Co-op City Times / March 11, 2017
It’s
CCPD Awards Ceremony
HAPPENING in Co-op City!
Public Safety Awards …. The ninety officers, detectives and supervisors of Co-op City’s Department of Public Safety were honored collectively and individually for actions taken during the course of their duties that ran the gamut of saving lives, arresting felons, and improving the quality of life in and around the community.
DR. LEWIS WOLSTEIN
Awards handed out included the Department’s Medal of Honor given for an heroic act performed despite risk to one’s own personal safety, Meritorious Police Duty given for performing intelligent police services over an extended period of time and Excellent Police Duty given for intelligent, valuable acts that led to key arrests or the reduction of crime over an extended period of time.
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Some of the personnel who received special recognition for their acts of bravery and police acumen were ESU Officers Mathew Coletti, Mitch Romano, Charles Thomas, and Carrie Wyatt along with Lt. Frank Torres, Detective Damita Johnson, who each received the Medal of Valor, for working together in saving the life of a fellow officer who had gone into cardiac arrest and stopped breathing while on duty in September of 2014; Officers Michael Marsanico and Mathew Coletti for physically confronting a ma le who was displaying a loaded firearm on a busy Co-op City street on a summer Saturday afternoon in July of 2014 placing the public in the immediate vicinity in danger. The armed male was successfully disarmed and arrested by the officers without further incident. Both officers were awarded the Silver Star Medal; Detectives Michael Driska and Ricardo Santos were each awarded a Commendation for confr onting a suspicious male on Baychester Avenue who was looking into parked vehicles during overnight hours. Vehicle break-ins in that vicinity were prevalent at that time and the detectives who were working in plainclothes confronted the suspect who, it turned out, was in possession of a loaded firearm that he tried to discard. The suspect was arrested by the two officers and the gun was taken off the streets.
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Many of acts of heroism and sound police work were honored during last Saturday’s ceremonies. Chief Frank Apollo, commander of the Department of Public Safety said: “People inherently like to hear the stories of heroes and share in their personal victories. Many times during my career as an officer, supervisor and commander I have felt that Public Safety was the underdog, constantly walking in the shadows of the NYPD, but as my career moved forward and the years flew by, I realized that this concept was incorrect. With consistent support from the community and its leaders, we have grown to be an extremely competent and professional department and we will continue to grow as we provide protection to such a wonderful community.” Photos by Raymond Obeng
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