Hero saves children from burning home
Described as a hero, Officer Jeremy Foote raced in a home with a room on fire Wednesday morning and helped bring two girls to safety, officials said. »
Wednesday, Jun. 4, 2008
Monday, Apr. 7, 2008
Police honor the best among officers, staff
The Westminster Police Department recently announced the recipients of annual awards honoring its best officers and staff. »
Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2008
Cop honored for rescue of girl hostage
Police brass recently honored an Emergency Services detective who saved the life of a 3-year-old girl in Queens in February. »
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
Deputies to be honored for work
A number of Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Department deputies will be recognized in April for acts ranging from saving residents from a fire to solving ongoing cases to organizing charity events. »
Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008
Officers take kids on shopping spree
At the front of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in North Little Rock, the single mothers and their children lined up with their carts. »
Friday, Dec. 14, 2007
Cops honoured for heroics
Const. Jessie Poonian put his life in peril by rescuing a 10-year-old girl sleeping on a couch in a burning home in the $20-million MacEwan neighbourhood fire in July. »
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007
Hero cop tackles axe-wielding man
AN off-duty police officer tackled an axe-wielding man in Palmyra yesterday morning. »
Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007
Hero officers save drowning woman
UK — Two police community support officers yesterday pulled a suicidal woman from a canal. »
Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2007
Canadian cop on vacation rescues Americans
Giovanni Di Legge, a 15-year veteran of the Canadian police force and currently working as a police officer in Montreal, was enjoying a good time with his family on the beaches of Maine when cries of distress pierced the air. »
Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007
Cop Turns Double-Hero After Elderly Couple Collapses
Annapolis’s annual 4th of July parade got off to a scary start Wednesday when an elderly couple collapsed with life-threatening health problems. »
Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007
Hero Officers Honored Nearly 6 Years Later
It took nearly six years, but three Division of Wildlife Resources officers who risked their own lives to save two others have been honored for their service. »
Friday, Aug. 10, 2007
Trooper honored for rescues
A Massachusetts state trooper from Shutesbury is being heralded for quick thinking and heroic actions on the Connecticut River last summer. »
Tuesday, Jul. 31, 2007
Officer: ‘I’m no Hero!’
JACKSONVILLE, FL — It is amazing video of a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer, saving a man from a burning car on San Pablo road. »
Monday, Jul. 2, 2007
Work with kids makes cop a hero
Paul Deppi started helping kids with an eye toward becoming a cop. »
Friday, May. 25, 2007
Police are everyday heroes
Heroism happens every day. We see examples of it on the news, from our soldiers overseas who commit acts of inspirational bravery. We owe them a debt of immeasurable gratitude. »
Wednesday, May. 16, 2007
Hero cop says he was “Johnny on the spot”
A Dunedin police officer who has been honoured for rescuing a ten-year-old boy from a burning motel unit says he is humbled by the recognition. »
Tuesday, May. 15, 2007
Police Week begins with outdoor prayer service
With help from Houston’s religious leaders, members of the Houston Police Department bowed their heads in prayer Monday at the start of National Police Week. »
Monday, Apr. 30, 2007
Cops rescue man from burning car
Three Chicago police officers rescued a man who was trapped in his car this morning shortly after it collided with a sport-utility vehicle and caught fire on Chicago’s West Side. »
Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2007
Pittsburgh Officers Rescue Woman From Blaze
Around 11:30 Monday night, Bellevue police Officers Bill Scheller and Earl Grubbs III arrived at a small apartment building on Maryland Avenue. Somebody there had placed a 911 call — “some threats being made over the phone,” Officer Scheller said — and then hung up. »
Judge, angel stop bullet
The Waukegan police dispatcher sent out a call: a fight at Leno’s sandwich shop. Two thugs from California were beating a cleanup worker they mistakenly thought had access to a safe. It was about 11 p.m. on a Sunday in March 1977. »
Thursday, Mar. 29, 2007
Code-breaker hero cracks the top police job
THE policeman who masterminded the safe return of the wartime Enigma code-breaking machine after it was stolen from its home at Bletchley Park is to be the new Assistant Chief Constable of West Mercia. »
Off-duty cop rescues 4-year-old boy from blaze
An off-duty police officer on his way home from work early this morning rescued a 4-year-old boy from the third floor of a burning house on the 70-block of Windsor Road in Castleton Corners. »
Friday, Mar. 23, 2007
Hero given award for rooftop rescue
A HEROIC policeman who caught a man falling from a rooftop and held him dangling from the edge for an hour has been commended for his actions. »
Wednesday, Mar. 21, 2007
Rail crash hero policeman speaks out
A CLITHEROE rail policeman has spoken of his role in helping the surbivors of the recent Cumbrian train crash.
And while Brookside Primary School pupil Chelsea Brand has hailed her dad, PC Steven Davies (28), a hero, the former Whalley resident maintains he was simply carrying out his job with British Transport Police. »
Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2007
Stabbed in head, he shoots, chases down the suspect until help arrives
Even after he was hacked in the head with a hunting knife, a Brooklyn cop still managed to chase his attacker across a subway platform - shooting him twice before collapsing nearby, police said yesterday. »
Monday, Mar. 19, 2007
Cop recounts harrowing rescue
Confronted by rushing, icy, dark water and an injured, unconscious Ithaca man slipping downstream in Cascadilla Gorge, Ithaca Police Officer Kevin McKenna didn’t hesitate. »
Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2007
Cop mounts bus rescue
A quick-thinking OPP constable helped dozens of passengers trapped in a burning bus reach safety yesterday after a massive chain-reaction crash during whiteout conditions on Hwy. 400. »
Thursday, Mar. 8, 2007
Hero cops save woman
An OPP officer secured his partner with rope to prevent them from falling as they clung to a young woman in a dramatic rush-hour rescue on an overpass over Hwy. 401. »
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007
Honors bestowed on those who make a difference
A number of Woodland police officers were awarded Thursday for their leadership, volunteerism and dedication to the WPD. »
Monday, Feb. 26, 2007
Hero officers to get top lifesaving award
Two hero policemen who braved stormy seas in the middle of the night to dramatically rescue a drowning woman are to receive top lifesaving awards. »