SD Police Chiefs’ Association and SD Sheriffs’ Association Present 2017 Awards The SD Police Chiefs’ and SD Sheriffs’ Association presented a number of Awards at the Joint Spring Training held in Deadwood on April 19, 2017. Medal of Honor The Medal of Honor is given jointly by the South Dakota Police Chiefs’ and South Dakota Sheriffs’ Associations and is for law enforcement officers who willingly distinguish themselves through an act of courage, involving a risk of imminent serious injury or death, for the purpose of saving or protecting a human life or while taking an armed and immediately dangerous suspect into custody. The recipient of this year’s Medal of Honor is Officer Ty Reinke of the Aberdeen Police Department. The following summary of events is from the nomination form submitted by Chief Dave McNeil of the Aberdeen Police Department.
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(L to R) Chief Lee McPeek, Watertown Police Department and President of the SD Police Chiefs’ Association, Officer Ty Reineke, Aberdeen Police Department, and Chief Dave McNeil, Aberdeen Police Department. Officer Ty Reinke distinguished himself for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as a member of the Aberdeen Police Department on the streets of Aberdeen on August
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