The Voices Behind the Cops Being Honored
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- May
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They are unseen but they are heard. Their decisions – at times split-second ones – on where to send police officers and other emergency responders can determine life or death.
They are police dispatchers.
On June 3, those unheralded voices from every police department will honor their own with a dinner and awards presentation at the Leo Ladders American Legion Post 130 in Thiells.
Pete Medina, a Ramapo dispatcher and president of the Rockland 911 Dispatchers Association, said there were three finalists for dispatchers of the year.
They were the Orangetown dispatchers who handled the late night fire at Thorpe Village; the Clarkstown dispatchers who handled the standoff between a man who committed suicide and cops on Little Tor Road; and the Ramapo dispatchers who directed officers during the rescue of Monica Downes, the teenager kidnapped after getting off a school bus in front of his house.
The winners were the Ramapo team of Eileen Maschak, Jill Crean and Sue Burr for the kidnapping. Medina said all the finalists did a great job and will be recognized but the Ramapo dispatchers were chosen because Downes was rescued and three people were arrested the same day and later convicted of kidnapping her.
Anyone interested in attending the awards dinner can call Medina at 845-641-6899.
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on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 3:25 pm by Steve Lieberman.
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