Fresno Police Department recognizes those who went above and beyond

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno Police Department instrumentality enforcement unit came unneurotic Friday to admit those who went supra and beyond successful the enactment of duty.

"Thank you for sacrificing idiosyncratic safety," says Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer. "Thank you for sacrificing clip with your family. Thank you for your work for this noble profession."

Officers earned respective distinctions, including awards for recovered firearms, lives saved and exceptional investigative work.

Some officers independently took 10 to adjacent 50 amerciable guns disconnected the streets conscionable past year.

Interim Chief Mindy Casto credited the enactment of these officers to a nonstop simplification successful crime, including a 70% driblet successful shootings implicit the past 2 years, murders chopped successful fractional and a important driblet successful burglaries.

"It's what they bash each day," she said. "Actually, determination were galore much officers honored with these life-saving medals and different medals that really weren't present today. Many of them are moving nights, they're trying to slumber close now, but we person heroes passim the agency. The stories are amazing, but they are a fraction of what they bash connected a regular basis."

Officer Ray Camacho took location the apical grant -- a Medal of Valor.

He was conscionable pursuing up connected a telephone for burglary past August erstwhile things took a scary turn.

"I've had a thump successful my backmost and didn't recognize that the pistillate fishy was trying to stab me," helium said. "Once I realized that, I pulled retired my work weapon."

The fishy past grabbed a victim, enactment them successful a chokehold and pointed the weapon astatine them, taking them hostage.

That's erstwhile Officer Camacho's 30 years of acquisition and speedy reasoning kicked into precocious gear. He was capable to crushed with the suspect, got her to driblet her weapon and surrender. All 3 made it retired alive.

"Not lone did helium support himself alive, and the idiosyncratic who the fishy tried to instrumentality arsenic a hostage, the fishy besides made it retired uninjured," Casto said.

Proud household members were successful the crowd, including Officer Sara Voerman's parents.

She and her partner, Officer Hernandez, earned life-saving medals together, having saved a antheral suffering gunshot wounds successful some of his legs.

The 2 accidental they couldn't person done it without a bully spouse by their side.

We were capable to render this assistance by some looking implicit each other's backmost and making definite we some went location harmless astatine the extremity of the day, arsenic good arsenic our victim," Voerman said.

Casto says she plans to clasp much of these ceremonies to springiness the officers their much-deserved recognition.

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