Pasadena Police Dept. Honors Community Members with Service and Partnership Awards
By Terry Miller
Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Pasadena Interim Chief of Police, Christopher Vicino, talks with media before the luncheon. Pictured with Vicino is Pastor Jean Burch, one of the Police Community Partnership award recipients. According to Pasadena Police, Pastor Burch has made a profound and lasting impact on the Pasadena Community particularly with improving the lives of troubled youth.
Pastor Burch also founded the Community Bible Community Development Corporation, Pasadena’s foremost provider of affordable housing. Vicino stressed the great impact that people like Pastor Burch have on the community.
The 39th Annual Police & Citizens Awards Luncheon was held Thursday, May 13th , at the Pasadena Convention Center.. The Pasadena Police Department honored approximately two dozen members of the community and 13 police employees with merit awards for service, courage and bravery.
“This goes far beyond the standard medal of valor luncheons hosted by most agencies,” says Interim Chief of Police Christopher Vicino. “This ceremony celebrates that, but as importantly, it celebrates our community. Policing in the City of Pasadena is as successful as it is because of the partnerships we have with our residents and businesses.”
Among those to be honored are:
• Vic Baliozian, for assisting an officer subdue a violent suspect.
• Ronald and Nancy Flores for following two burglary suspects who had stolen property from a neighbor’s home.
• Tiffany Duenas for a clever ruse that detained two burglary suspects who were attempting to evade police.
• Marc St. Hippolyte, Krystal Guzman, for looking for, finding and identifying two suspects that had burglarized a neighbor’s home stealing loaded firearms.
• Sarah Eberhardt, Michelle L. Clyde, Valerie Moore, Daniel R. Garcia, Heather Keefer for stopping a sexual assault in progress in Old Pasadena.
• Jose M. Chavez, for astute observations that turned out to be a crucial link to establish a viable case against the suspect who was sexually assaulting the woman in Old Pasadena.
• Jean Burch, for her profound and lasting impact on the Pasadena community through a vast array of programs, many of them dedicated to improving the lives of troubled youth.
• PASADENA ARMENIAN POLICE ADVISORY COUNCIL (PAPAC) for partnering with the Pasadena Police Department, and being a valuable community link particularly to Armenian youth groups, churches and schools.
• Derrick Ross, for his facilitation of special training that has increased effectiveness and communications between the California Department of Corrections – Parole Unit and the Pasadena Police Department.
• The “CREDIT” (Community Response to Eradicate and Deter Identity Theft) team – Elizabeth Diott, Duane Allen, William Jennings, and Thomas Lenzo -for their dedication as volunteer Identity Theft Specialists, serving as a critical administrative link in handling identification theft cases.
Sarah Eberhardt, Michelle Lynn Clyde, Valerie Moore and Heather Keefer
Nancy and Ronald Flores
Photos by Terry Miller
No related posts.
[...] the Full Story at Pasadena Independent var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname="Pasadena Police [...]