Police Awards Content

Police, Fire Departments Present Awards

Dave Jones — May 28, 2019 - 2:16pm

The campus Police Department recently presented UC Lifesaving Medals to four officers for a rescue at the �ٺ��Ƶ Medical Center in April 2018.

Chief Joe Farrow and Capt. Mark Brunet, the department’s new second-in-command, presented the medals during the department’s annual Employee Recognition and Swearing-In Ceremony and Cadet Graduation.

Dispatcher: Focused Amid Tragedy

Dave Jones — May 28, 2019 - 1:26pm

Around 6:40 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, his shift having just ended, James Bronson was about to leave the campus Police Department’s dispatch center when communications started coming in about a shooting in Davis.

“I literally had my hand on the doorknob when Amelia (Vaughan) and I overheard the word ‘shooting’ — or something similar — on the Davis police channel,” Bronson said. Vaughan and Nate Dilworth, the campus Police Department’s newest dispatchers, had just relieved Bronson and his day-shift partner, Stephen McBride.

LAURELS: Honoring Police Officers’ Good Deeds

Dave Jones — June 11, 2018 - 11:06am

Police Chief Joe Farrow recently presented UC Lifesaving Medals to 14 officers and dispatchers, honored another dispatcher — just a year into the job — as Dispatcher of the Year, and presented Lifetime Achievement Awards to two longtime officers who are retiring.