The Brea’s Police Department recently held its annual awards dinner and the city’s police officers, police employees and police volunteers were acknowledged for their often heroic deeds made to help save lives and make the community a safer place to live, work or visit.
About 150 were in attendance that night, including Mayor Marty Simonoff, Councilmembers Cecilia Hupp, Steven Vargas and Blair Stewart, City Manager Bill Gallardo, Supervisor Doug Chaffe and representatives for legislators Phillip Chen, Michelle Steel and Young Kim.
It is remarkable and commendable what some Brea police officers have done over the past year that went above and beyond their required duties and, through training and quick thinking, saved lives.
According to Capt. Phil Rodriguez, Officer Cameron Bashta received a Lifesaving Award for giving aid to a man who was choking at the Brea Mall. Officer Bashta’s quick actions included performing CPR and getting another unit there and an automated external deliberator, or AED. With help, the man regained consciousness.
The Lifesaving Award was also given to officers Robert Evans, David Ortiz, Madison Maher, Sgt. David Aguirre and Detective Jonathan Morouse. These officers also quickly responded to aid unconscious people who were not breathing and were able to revive these people.
The Distinguished Service Award was awarded to Cpl. Ryan McDuffy for his efforts in finding the suspects involved with the 7-Eleven market shootings that happened in Brea and elsewhere in SoCal, said Rodriguez.
Distinguished Service Awards were also bestowed on officers Ryan Cardenas and Nathan Fernandez who, when responding to a welfare check at Pizza Hut, found a man who was drinking and screaming at the person who called the PD, Rodriguez said.
When the officers told the man to sit on the ground, Rodriguez said he became belligerent and began fighting with Cardenas who was placing handcuffs on him. Cardenas got a laceration on his head that started to bleed…
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