Springfield Police K-9 competition going strong, 16 years running
6 years running in Springfield, a chance Saturday for some of the hardest working, four-legged members of the police force to show their stuff.
Saturday, June 18th, 2011, the Springfield Police Department’s K-9 Unit held its annual police K-9 competition at Springfield High School’s Silke Field.
Featuring police dogs from across Oregon including Springfield, Deschutes County, Bend, Corvallis, Lake Oswego, even as far as Morrow County, the annual event is a chance for officers to show off their animals.
Animals to demonstrate skills in timed events like an agility course, area search, handler protection, fastest dog and suspect take-downs.
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Lower Paxton police officers, residents honored
Lower Paxton Twp. supervisors and the police department recently presented awards.
Supervisors honored two residents with civilian support awards. Maria Ramirez was eating dinner with off-duty community service officer Charles Grubb when they noticed an elderly woman in distress. The woman, 66, became unconscious after choking on a piece of food. They provided emergency care until the arrival of emergency services. The woman survived.
A second award was presented to Leslie Rehm, who was driving and noticed an elderly man on the ground. She stopped her car, called 911 and began administering CPR to the man, who was in cardiac arrest. She continued emergency care until police and emergency services arrived.
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Canadians lead dramatic rescue of U.S. police from edge of Niagara Falls
Two park police officers await rescue on the Niagara River, near the brink of the Horseshoe Falls on June 18, 2011.
A Canadian helicopter pilot and a Niagara Parks police officer were part of a dramatic rescue that pulled two American cops from a boat stranded at the brink of Horseshoe Falls on Saturday.
The vessel in distress — a New York State Police jetboat — got lost in heavy fog on the Niagara River while out on another rescue mission, officials said.
Blinded by the fog and unable to determine how close they were to the edge, the two U.S. officers threw the boat’s anchor overboard and waited for help, police said.
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Minnesota state trooper from Hibbing honored
Minnesota State Trooper Travis Pearson, an eight-year veteran from Hibbing, has received the honorable mention award as Minnesota’s police officer of the year.
The award, given earlier this week at a ceremony in Alexandria, was presented by the Minnesota Peace and Police Officers Association.
Pearson was honored for his roll in a tragic shooting incident on June 12, 2010, after an estranged husband was actively shooting into a house where a woman and her two young children resided.
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