SD Police Chiefs’ Association and SD Sheriffs’ Association Present 2018 Awards
The SD Police Chiefs’ and SD Sheriffs’ Association presented a number of Awards at the Joint Spring Training held in Deadwood on April 18, 2018. Citizen’s Award of Merit
The Citizen’s Award of Merit is given jointly by the South Dakota Police Chiefs’ and South Dakota Sheriffs’ Associations. The award is presented to a citizen, company or group who performed an exceptional act or demonstrated a continued pattern of actions that furthered the missions and goals of the SDPCA and SDSA, or who have made a significant contribution to the law enforcement profession in the State of South Dakota.
The recipient of this year’s Citizen’s Award of Merit is Chris Schafer, Hamlin County Director of Equalization. The following summary of events is from the nomination form submitted by his co-worker, Jessica Trautner. On August 17, 2017 we were traveling back to Castlewood,
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Chief Lee McPeek, Watertown, SDCMA President presented the Citizen’s Award of Merit to Chris Schafer.
SD from Pierre. We pulled up to an accident. A semi pulling double trailers had hit a train. Chris immediately jumped out to help. The driver was pinned inside the cab. Two train engineers were trying to put the fire out, to no avail. Chris realized they weren’t going to get the fire out so he worked on getting the door open and getting the
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