Five area policemen and six citizens received the Women’s Crusade Against Crime Medal of Valor in ceremonies held at 4:00 P.M. Wednesday, October 6, at the Breckenridge Pavilion Theatre. Col. Edward M. Davis, Los Angeles Police Chief and President of the International Association of Police Chiefs, made the awards and addressed the audience of past winners, family members, co-workers and interested citizens.
Police awards which .recognize “heroic action beyond the call of normal police duty” went to Patrolman Robert Darlington, Kirkwood Police; Patrolman Terry Dean May, Granite City Police; and Patrolman Daniel Crowe, Detective Benny Green, and Detective Daniel Swan of the Metropolitan St. Louis Police.
For the third time in the eight-year history of the Valor program, medals were accorded citizens. Guidelines for Citizen Aid-to-Police are specified as an “heroic act within lawful conduct and primarily motivated by an instinctive concern for the safety of a police officer or the prevention of a crime.”
The six citizen awardees are Jesse C. Haggerty and Scott Haggerty,
Steven Dudley, Clifford Cockrell, John Merriweather and Larry Wilson. All were nominated by the Metropolitan St. Louis Police Department.
Steven Dudley, who recently joined the Navy, was given leave from boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Training Station in order to be present.
Judges for this year’s nominees were Mr. J. A. Baer II, Chairman of the Board, Stix Baer & Fuller; Albert J. O’Brien, civic leader and former President, Ralston Purina Company: Nathaniel Shipp, Administrative Assistant, DePaul Hospital; Leo Konzen, Attorney, Madison County, Illinois; and Ann Slaughter, Co-chairman of the Women’s Crusade Against Crime.
Originally published in The Paper, November 1976.
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