Police Officers of the Month
2009
April / May 2009
The Long Island Shields are proud to give Police Officer of the Month Awards to Police Officer Hector Bourren and Police Officer Collen LaMontagne. They demonstrated bravery in the face of danger, and their quick-thinking and professionalism protected both property and life in a Garden City Park home
February 2009
The Long Island Shields are proud to present its Officer of the Month Award to Susan Porcello, a Police Officer in the 68th Precinct in Bay Ridge. She is a Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Delegate, but tonight we are celebrating something she did "above and beyond" her official call of duty. She reached out to someone who had no else to help him, and she made a difference in his life.
2008
December 2008
On October 12th, 2008 Police Officer Timothy Tonkin was working a 3 X 11 tour when at approximately 2055 hrs. he received a call to respond to a vehicle in the water near the boat ramp in Billy Joel Park in Cold Spring Harbor . Upon his arrival there was off duty Nassau County AEMT Scott Kitograd in a dingy near the submerged vehicle and Mrs. Kitograd advised Officer Tonkin there was a person inside the vehicle.
October 2008
It was a bitter cold night. At approximately 12:30 AM, a 21-year-old man named Danny Hernandez began looking for a uniformed police officer. Hernandez had a baseball bat. He was looking to strike an officer and take his or her gun. Hernandez wanted this gun to commit robberies. He was a college dropout and he was in debt.
June 2008
Police Officer Florie was performing a night tour when he received a radio notification of a possible house fire. Upon arrival at the location, Officer Florie observed a working house fire with a woman outside screaming that people were trapped inside the house. Officer Florie observed smoke billowing from the ground floor windows and quickly assessed the situation. He requested additional units to respond to assist him.
On March 28,Officers Brady and Hughes were assigned to plainclothes patrol in an unmarked B.S.O. vehicle. They were in the vicinity of the 7-11 store on Grand Ave. in Baldwin, when they noticed a subject emerge from the rear seat of a Nissan. They watched this subject look around suspiciously before he entered the store. The vehicle immediately backed out of the parking stall and was then positioned near a driveway exit.
April / May 2008
Police Officer Florie was performing a night tour when he received a radio notification of a possible house fire. Upon arrival at the location, Officer Florie observed a working house fire with a woman outside screaming that people were trapped inside the house. Officer Florie observed smoke billowing from the ground floor windows and quickly assessed the situation. He requested additional units to respond to assist him.
February 2008
Police Officer Florie was performing a night tour when he received a radio notification of a possible house fire. Upon arrival at the location, Officer Florie observed a working house fire with a woman outside screaming that people were trapped inside the house. Officer Florie observed smoke billowing from the ground floor windows and quickly assessed the situation. He requested additional units to respond to assist him.
2007
December 2007
Life is good and all will be well for one very lucky lady, due to the quick actions of off duty NYPD Captain Vincent LoRusso. Captain Vincent LoRusso a resident of Garden City, and his family were traveling eastbound on Stewart Avenue on July 1, 2007 at 12:40 p.m. when they drove up to a two-car collision. One of the vehicles was flipped on its side and on fire. Capt. LoRusso jumped out of his vehicle and ran toward the burning car, that he believed was occupied. Capt. LoRusso observed a woman in the driver's seat. Without a moments hesitation Capt. LoRusso attempted to extricate the elderly female driver from the vehicle but he was unable to do so due to the positioning of her body on top of the seat buckle.
November 2007
On a fall morning Police Officer Gubitosi was on patrol with a couple of his fellow officers from the 76th Precinct, Anti-Crime Unit, when they received a radio call about a man had assaulted a woman at the intersection of Smith Street and Butler. A male subject had grabbed a woman from behind and placed a serrated knife across the back of her neck. He said to the terrified victim "if they kill me, I won't have to hurt you".
September 2007
While on patrol, Suffolk County Police Officer Chris Germano observed heavy smoke and flames emanating from a residence. He immediately notified headquarters, requesting fire department and assist units to the scene. Officer Germano proceeded to alert residents and evacuated them from the burning building ...
June 2007
Port Washington Narcotics Unit, Detective John Steadman and Detective Dean Steinmann developed information that a male subject from New York City was delivering cocaine to Port Washington residents on a daily basis. It was determined through investigative means that some of these subjects were redistributing the cocaine to even more residents in Port Washington ...
April/May 2007
On a Sunday morning this past October at approximately 0415 hours a 1999 ford Windstar with five passengers tragically lost control and careened up a steep embankment, hitting a tree before crashing into a concrete wall that forms part of an overpass ...
March 2007
Beginning in the summer of 2005, the Old Brookville Police Department began experiencing a pattern of residential daytime burglaries. Several of these burglaries occurred during a very small time frame while the homeowner ran an errand ...
2006
September 2006
On March 2, 2006 at 3:59 A.M. Police Officers James Skidmore and Stephen Krolikiewicz responded to a residence on Franklin Avenue in Mastic to assist a 10 month old female child who had difficulty breathing due to an asthmatic condition. ...
June 2006
We honor as our Police Officers of the Month, Detectives Robert Hillman and
Manuel Nash of the Robbery Squad, Nassau County Police Department and from the
Floral Park Police Department, Police Officers William Doherty and Kimberly
Scanlon ...
March 2006 - 2
On Sunday, July 17, at approximately 1:30 A.M. Kevin Davy was observed in front
of St. Joachim and Anne Church Hollis, Queens. Mr. Davy was observed to have struck a statue of St. Anne and the Virgin Mary several times with a long blunt metal object ...
March 2006 - 1
On Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at approximately 0755 hours, Police Officer
Christopher Wiesneski, was on routine patrol in two-wheel scooter #951 in the
vicinity of the Laurelton Parkway Park located at 120th Ave and 238th St ...
2005
December 2005
On March 22, 2005 Police Officers Robert Burns and Shannon Pearl were assigned
to 113 Pct. SNEU in unmarked auto 8417.At about 1940 hrs. the officers responded
to a 10-39 (threats to life-man with a gun) at 185-31 Ilion Ave ...
October 2005
On Sunday, January 16th, 2005 P.O. James Polla was assigned to take a report of
a past larceny that occurred in his sector. Upon arrival he checked the exterior
of the house to ascertain if there was a break or attempt break ...
June 2005
The Shields of Long Island are proud to honor Sergeant Jack Sadousky of the New
York State Park Police as our Police Officer of the Month for June 2005 ...
April/May 2005
On October 16, 2004 Sgt Joseph Sortino informed the first platoon of a bank
robbery pattern and passed around a bank surveillance photo of the subject that
was wanted by the Nassau Co. Robbery Unit ...
February 2005
On the evening of February 19, 2004, Lt. Dennis McCavera of the Old Westbury
Police Department was returning from visiting his son in the Washington D.C.
area ...
2004
November 2004
Sergeant Kevin Harford, while off duty on his way home after his tour, spotted a
1995 Mercedes fitting the description of a vehicle seen speeding away from an
armed push-in robbery earlier in the day ...
June 2004
On Nov. 17th, P.O. Margaret Zafferese of the NYC Police Deptartment had
completed a midnight tour and arrived at her Massapequa home ...
April/May 2004
On September 21, at 2155 hrs., P.O.s Soto, Muller and Discala responded to a
radio run of a suspicious male with a gun at the CVS store located in Franklin
Square ...
February 2004
On April 16, 2003 P.O. Stanley Oleksiak, while responding to an unrelated
assignment, was in the vicinity of Washington Mutual Band in Rockville Centre
when a radio notification was transmitted regarding a robbery which had just
occured at the bank ...
2003
November 2003
On Saturday, September 21, Officer John McCarthy was patroling the beach front
at Jones Beach State Park. State Park Police Communications had received a 911
call from a person on the beach front reporting that two persons were in the
ocean and having difficulty staying afloat and were in apparent danger; there
were no lifeguards on duty ...
September 2003
At approximately 2245 hrs. P.O. Frane Reado responded to a disturbance call in
Hempstead NY. Upon his arrival he was informed by a woman that her ex boyfriend
and father of her child had just left after terrorizing everyone in the house ...
March 2003
On March 9, 2003, Police Officer Schmidt ran through heavy smoke and flames in a
burning West Islip home to save a collapsed firefighter ...
2002
December 2002
The four officers working a 12 x 8 shift on 12/29/02 ran into a burning building around the corner from the station house (45 Pct.) at approximately 4:00 A.M. braving smoke and flames to save three people, including a 87 yr. old man.
