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  1980 - 2000

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 Photo courtesy Lieut. Robert Wilson

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Officer Frederick I. Schiminger 

Officer Robert Ross (AKA Barney)

Officer Robert Ross ( Barney Fife) 
 Cross Street footman

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Photo courtesy Agent Robert Jud

Police Commissioner Frank J. Bataglia (center) Officer Mike Arminger (left) who passed away LOD and Detective Robert Jud (right)

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Officer Steve Histon 1980's

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Photo courtesy Sgt. Nick Nixon
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College recognition ceremony August 14, 1981

From left to right Sergeant Alan Woods ( Legal Advisor's Office), Agent John Betso (Western District), Lieutenant Joseph Chrisiansen (Northwest District), Agent Tom Douglas (Traffic), Agent Robert Jud (IID),Agent Larry Hornstein (Tactical), Criminalist Bob Sroka 

 (Laboratory Division)

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Colonel Dick Francis

March 3, 1982

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In 1982 Officer Marion Wiczulis, Traffic Enforcement, works an unmarked cruiser. The Traffic car was the only one to have white wall tires and red lights, which were approved by Colonel Dick Francis at the time.

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Courtesy Joe Wiczulis
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Photo courtesy Deputy Commissioner William Rochford

Police Union Meeting 1983

Deputy Commissioner William Rochford, seated at the first chair left side.

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Photo courtesy Officer Don DeWar

Officer Don DeWar after graduation with his Mom & Dad

Don joined the department after 4 years in the Military but left the department after one year to continue his college education which he had begun while serving in the department and graduated with a degree in Criminal Justice. He reentered the US Army Reserve and retired after almost 37 years. He ran in 2006 for Baltimore City Council 1st District and lost by a very slim margin and hopes to run again. A real success story for one of our very own.

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Officer Juan Rodriguez early 1980's Dogde Aspen 

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Photo courtesy Lt. Robert Wilson

1983 - Lt. Wilson  Snow Storm in Baltimore followed by looting and activation of National Guard

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Photo courtesy Det. Lou Trimper

Det. Lou Trimper with Govenor William Donald Schaefer July 11, 1993

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Officer W.Hackley photo
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Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon

Kevin Lenahan, Bill Gordon, Tim Longo

(Below) Jeff Rosen, Tim Longo, Bill Gordon

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Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon
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Marty Beauchamp, Bill & Barb Gordon

1995

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Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon

Sergeant William Gordon in the lobby museum of the Headquarters Building

(Below) Sergeant William Gordon in Washington DC durring Police Week 1998

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Photo Courtesy Sgt. William Gordon

Baltimore Police Deputy Commissioner

Mike Zotos is pictured in the center 

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Officer Paul Williams receiving his Certificate of

Retirement, along with his beautiful wife Mary,

Colonel Leon Tomlin and Lt. Tim Longo. October 21,1996

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Civil War Wedding

This maybe an 1860’s wedding party but look closely at the girl in the white dress and the guy standing next to her with the white beard.. The Bride is Teddi Bittenger, supervisor of the B of I unit and the Groom is Major Robert DiStefano.

The wedding party:

Seated in front row, L to R: #1 Blue Dress - Sharon Woolridge, wife

of Al; #2 Red Dress - Sheila Crochetti, wife of Rus; #3 Teal Dress -

Pat Ortega, wife of Julio; # 4 Floral Skirt, white blouse, Imogene

Yaste, wife of Pastor Yaste.

Standing, L to R: # 1 Al Woolridge, retired as a Sergeant to supervise the

Printrak System; #2 Freda Waters Birchett, supervisor of the mainframe

computer for the BPD, wife of Officer Tom Birchett and dear friend of Teddi and Maid of Honor. #3 Officer Tom Birchett, a dear friend and Best Man

#4 Rus Crochetti, a civilian BCPD supervisor; #5 Teddi; #6 Major Robert DiStefano; #7 BPD Detective Julio Ortega; # 8 Major DiStefano’s son's and then girlfriend, "Star", Pastor Dixon Yaste, he and his dear wife are both departed.

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Major DiStefano was married in the Old South Mountain Inn in

Boonsboro, it served as a field hospital during the battle of South Mountain, just before the Battle of Sharpsburg, or Antietam.  Major DiStefano is the gentleman with the white beard, and his best man Officer Tom Birchett is second from the left, all except the man in red are BCPD cops.  The minister is wearing the red of a Confederate Lieutenant of Artillery, he is also wearing the collar insignia of a chaplain, they served double duty in the Confederate Army.  Behind them, across the road, is the Dahlgren Chapel, Dahlgren was an admiral in the Union Navy during the Civil War, and he invented the Dahlgren Gun, and was named: "The Father of Naval Ordnance."   Major DiStefano is dressed in an authentic reproduction uniform of Confederate General James "Old Pete" Longstreet.

Left to Right : Sergeant Al Woolridge, Officer Tom Birchett, Russ Crochetti, Major Robert DiStefano, Officer Julio Ortega, Pastor Yaste

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Major Robert and Teddi DiStefano, Lieutenant William and Betty Stone.

Lt. Stone was dressed as Matthew Brady for the occasion!

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Officer John DiStefano

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Honor Guard in Washington D.C. for POLICE WEEK1998

Police Officer Ron Starr, member of the Baltimore Police Honor Guard,
Posing with the restored 1968 Chevrolet Police Car
During a ceremony at the Baltimore Police Memorial June 2004

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Detective Jeff Hidy: ‘God’s in the miracle business’

Jeff Hidy, a detective with the Baltimore City Police Department headquarters security, has battled three different cancers in the last year and a half. “I’m here because I’ve laid things in the Lord’s hands,” Hidy said .

BALTIMORE - Detective Jeff Hidy breathes deeply from the one and one-third lungs he has remaining and declares this “a blessed day.” He utters the phrase at every opportunity from a mouth that never loses its delighted grin. Blessed day, indeed. For Hidy, every day on earth feels like a bonus.

The lung cancer? “It’s like I had a cold,” he says.

The brain tumor they found 30 days later? “Big as a fist,” he says. “Want to see the scar?”

The pain in his leg that turned out, six months ago, to be bone cancer?

“I wouldn’t worry about it,” the first doctor told him.

By this time, owing to history, Hidy had learned a certain cautionary skepticism. He’d worry, all right. Two years ago, when he had a soft, annoying cough that wouldn’t go away, the doctor told him, “Jeff, I guarantee you don’t have lung cancer.”

“Just the same,” said Hidy, “I’d like to get a chest X-ray.”

The X-rays said the doctor was wrong.

“It doesn’t look good,” the doctor said.

“Trust in God; he’ll take care of it,” Hidy said.

A month later, when he was getting chemotherapy for the lung, he told a doctor, “I feel a little spacey. Something’s not right. The cancer couldn’t be in my brain, too, could it?”

“No,” said this doctor. “But why don’t we get an MRI, just to make sure?”

They operated on Hidy’s brain the next day and removed a tumor the size of a small fist.

“See the scar?” says Hidy. He takes off his uniform cap and displays an 18-inch scar quite visible amid a recovering sprinkle of hair.

“Spot balding,” Hidy says. “My wife calls me Spalding. Like the tennis ball, yeah.”

A 15-year veteran of the Baltimore City Police Department who lives with his wife, Karen, in Middle River, Hidy utters every syllable with sheer joy. He beat the lung cancer, and he beat the brain tumor, and he’ll beat the bone cancer, too, he says.

“A blessed day,” he declares again. “All credit to the Lord. He just keeps carrying me. Satan gave me the tumors, but the Lord carries me through. Plus, I give some credit to the doctors, too.”

He is an upbeat man in a profession that can play decidedly downbeat. The cops see the worst of human nature, and deal with it. Sometimes, it’s all about approach.

“I’ve always been blessed,” Hidy, 50, was saying the other day. He sat in the lobby of police headquarters, near the base of the Jones Falls Expressway, and greeted almost all police employees walking past by their first names.

“In 10 years on the street,” he said, “I never had to shoot at anyone, never had to use my nightstick, never even used Mace. My partner used to say, ‘If Jeff locks somebody up, there shouldn’t even be a trial.’ I treated people the way I’d want them to treat my mother. And I got respect 95 percent of the time.”

Then there was that other 5 percent.

“Well, one time a woman came at me with a knife,” Hidy remembers. “I was responding to a domestic call. She came down the stairs at me with a steak knife. She could have hurt me. I didn’t want to shoot her. She just needed to be calmed down, and I just talked calmly and said I’d try to help her. I was really happy that I could.

“See, every threat level’s different. Anyone’s a liar who says they’re not scared out there. But, as a police [officer], you work your way through your fears. One time this girl hit me with a flashlight. It was Christmas. She was scared, and she went right into a corner and huddled in fear.

“I told her, ‘Listen, my Christmas present to you is, I’m not going to arrest you. But I want you to go to a hospital for help.’ And we got her treatment. That was a blessed day, a very blessed day.”

The phrase tumbles out of him reflexively. He is a deeply religious man at a highly vulnerable time of his life, and this is his comfort.

“I tell people,” he says, “ ‘If the Lord could look out for a bonehead like me, imagine what he’ll do for you.’ I tell this to people all the time. Don’t be scared.”

It is a fact that not everyone who prays gets healed. Hidy’s a man of faith, but he’s not blind.

“But God’s in the miracle business,” he says.

Hidy feels he’s been the recipient of two miracles so far: in his lung and his brain. Now, on his off days from work, he’s getting chemotherapy for the bone cancer. The smile never leaves his face, nor the phrase from his lips: a blessed day, he says.

It’s a blessing just to be around such optimism, and such a man.

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Colonel Dick Francis, Major Gill Karner, Captain Robert DiStefano

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Officer Vince Cole

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SERGEANT ROBERT "Bob" FISHER

1985 Assigned to Tactical Section 

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Captain Garry D'Addario 

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Sgt. Sonny Dickson

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Officer Doug Baumgarten  1989

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Juan Rodriguez and Linda Rodriquez
The first husband and wife promoted to the Rank of Sergeant on the same day
in the history of the Baltimore City Police Department. June 8, 1994.

(below) Their certificates of promotion to Sergeant

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Officer Bill Edgar with the Baltimore Raven's Cheerleaders

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Photo courtesy Officer Bill Edgar

Officer Bill Edgar with the Super Bowl Trophy

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Photo courtesy Officer Bill Edgar

Officer Bill Edgar with Mick Jagger

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Photo courtesy Officer Bill Edgar

Officer Bill Edgar with Hulk Hogan and  Randy Savage

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Photo courtesy Officer Bill Edgar

Officer Bill Edgar with President George W. Bush

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Photo courtesy Officer Bill Edgar

Officer Bill Edgar with Jay Leno

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Photo courtesy Officer Bill Edgar

Officer Bill Edgar & Chris Rock

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Officer Larry Fasano and Officer John Doesburgh

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 Sergeant Fred Roussey (now Lieutenant) and his wife Charlene with Police Commissioner Edward Norris, at the wreath laying National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial, Washington, DC.

Lost their son "Jamie" LODD March 8, 2000

  

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Officer Alan Keitz

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Officer Edward Doyle-Gillespie

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Officer James McCartin

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 Officer James McCartin

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Officer James McCartin with the Emerald Society's van

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Officer Larry Fasano

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Lieutenant Johnny Paradise

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Lieutenant J. Russell

Served 1979-2005

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Officer Roan Everett

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This is nice, I would like to build a display showing our various hats, but have hat devices made to reflect the year said hat was worn, I would like to show our women's police hat (The hat device can't use a year because all Women's badge numbers at the time started with 7000. The Pith Hat, Round hat, Bobby type Helmet, and Six Point Hat. It would make a nice display.

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The horse for this display was said to have been on loan until the owner decided he wanted to start charging, when he was told the department didn't have a budget, he brought a truck and took his horse, or so the story goes.

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These were nicely made for the times, but since we have better ways of making these kinds of things. Sadly these so poorly made that using them would be a disgrace to our fallen and not an honor to them. 

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We bought a few pics from a lady on eBay that bought several of these in a storage locker, she thought the young lady in the pics was a criminal because she was being polygraphed in one shot and either fingerprinted, or standing with uniformed police, but the seller thought she was in trouble. I explained she was an officer and the lady felt bad, saying she didn't realize we polygraphed our own.

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The First Ten Meter Maids in Baltimore City
Front Row - Delores Nots, Joan Covert, Sheila McAlee, Shirley Boyley, Elizabeth Aro
Back Row- Betty Erwin, Annie George, Donna Lloyd, Lillian Hartlove, Shirley Kurtz

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L to R to Bernie , Joe Beckhart, David Echoles, next 2 unk, Lewendowski (don’t remember which one)... seated   L to R  Charlie Cumberledge, Joe Fosler, Sam Torres , George Capp... on the table were the trophies THESE MEN had won up to that point in the contest... As an interesting side note, many of our shooters were paid to endore various ammo types, guns etc.Sparrows Point Police Department used to sponsor a pistol match that drew police from all over the country... It was a nice outing... shooters could take their family, it was a picnic type atmosphere... They had to stop, from what they were told, was due to the Sparrows Point Country Club and their complaints of the noise...

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BPD Misc Pics

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BPD Misc Pics

Cop-Paparazzi

More Pictures

Sun Paper Pic Collection

Police Collections

While working on putting this page together, a page with Misc police pics, of our brothers and sisters in the field, doing what we do, pics that will help preserve our history, and provide some sort of back-up or assistance to the active officers. My thought was to call it either "Police Paparazzi" or "Paparazzi Police" each having a funny meaning, but Police in front of, or behind the word Paparazzi can give it a different meaning, and still not change the effects of the shot. The added security I or any one of us that stops to take a pic of our brothers in the line of duty, and if need be the on-scene 10-16, as I am sure if the officer needed a back-up we would put down the camera and help. All that said and done, I was talking this over with one of my site developers and design techs; I was a little excited ( I know hard to believe - I get a little excited about police stuff, our history, my time with the BPD and this site..... ) Anyway, I was a little excited, and when I went to say one of these two police/paparazzi/police phrases, and not knowing which should go first, my mouth took over and coined a new phrase, a phrase that I think will be the phrase we are going to use. I called it "Cop-parazzi" a phrase that I fell in love with almost as quickly as I was hearing it. I love how my mind works, it would be nice though if it and my mouth would communicate better... so I  would know what I am thinking before I say it. Sometimes I hear it for the first time, the same time Patty hears it, and that can be dangerous LOL. 

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The officer with the nightstick isn't holding it like a Baltimore officer. This in our opinion is not Baltimore Police, but the pic is good to show even in the old days, Baltimore police held their Espantoon one way, and everyone else held their nightsticks another.

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This is how we hold our stick, (it's not a handle, it's a burl-head/barrel-head)
It is what makes a nightstick in anyone else's hands an Espantoon in ours

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Espantoon Collection

Friday, 17 January 2020 10:18
Espantoon Collection

 Espantoon Collection

Espantoon Info/History

Webster's Third Edition: "An Espantoon In Baltimore, a policeman's stick" We would like to start out by saying we collect Nightsticks, Espantoons, Batons, Truncheons, Billy Clubs Etc. - If you have one for sale, or donation let us know as we are interested.  For what might be obvious reasons we particularly like Baltimore style sticks, aside from their being the sticks carried by our brothers they also show a progression not just in what we carried, or had made, but what the department had made for us. While we like Baltimore sticks, we collect them all, from any state in the U.S. to any country in the world.

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Keep checking back for a great story that will go here... we are waiting for the information and confirmation - Please contact Det. Ret. Kenny Driscoll if you have any pictures of you or your family members and wish them remembered here on this tribute site to Honor the fine men and women who have served with Honor and Distinction at the Baltimore Police Department.Anyone with information, photographs, memorabilia, or other "Baltimore City Police" items can contact Ret. Det. Kenny Driscoll at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. follow us on Twitter @BaltoPoliceHist or like us on Facebook or contact us for a mailing address
 
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Medal of Honor Recipiants

Friday, 17 January 2020 06:49
Medal of Honor Recipiants

Medal of Honor


Medal of Honor
Police Department
Baltimore, Maryland  

A list of "Roll of Honor" / "Medal of Honor" Recipients, compiled from departmental records by our very own departmental historian; Police Officer, Robert "Bobby" Brown
* Indicates that they received the "Citation of Valor" as well
** Indicates under review looking for more information
If you, or your loved one received the medal, but are not listed, it is nothing personal. We don't have information unless it is sent to us. So send us what you want, to speed things up, send documentation so that we know we are updating our records with accurate information without having to first double check that it was the Medal of Honor they received.

Name - Rank - Date of Incident

Jacob Frey - Marshall - 1888

J. H. Kratz - Ptlm - 1889

G.H. Gordon - Ptlm - 1889

Bernard Ward - Sgt - 1889

John B. Dorsey - Ptlm - 1889

Arthur Napier -  Ptlm  - 1889

Matthew Quinn - Sgt - 1889

Joseph Nevins - Ptlm - 1889

Martin Manger - Ptlm - 1890

Joseph Smith - Ptlm - 1890

William J. Scarborough - Ptlm - 1891

Bernard Finnerty - Ptlm - 1893

Thomas P. O’Donnell - Det - 1897

John H. Gooding - Sgt - 1900/01

Charles H. McClean - RSgt - 1900/01

Francis P. Devon - Sgt - 1904

Henry Streib - Sgt  - Unknown 1907 book

Henry Feldpusch - Ptlm - 1905

Maurice C Erdman - Ptlm - 1914

George C. Sauer  - Ptlm (PH) - 1915

Peter Sawecke - Ptlm - 1916

Joseph E. Waechter - Ptlm - 1924

William Hawkins - Ptlm - 1924

Frank L. Latham - Ptlm (PH) - 1924

Joseph Logue -  Ptlm - 1924

Charles S. Frank - Ptlm (PH) - 1924

Claude E. Long - Ptlm - 1924

Thomas J. Dillon - Clerk  (PH) - 1926

Webster E. Schuman - Ptlm (PH) - 1926

Ignatuis M. Benesch - Sgt - 1926

Henry W. Sudmeier - Ptlm (PH) - 1926

William F. Doehler - Ptlm (PH) - 1927

Joseph F. Carroll -  Det Sgt (PH) - 1928

John P. Burns -  Ptlm (PH)  - 1932

John R. J. Block - Ptlm (PH) -1933

John Blank - Ptlm (PH) - 1934

Max Hirsh  - Ptlm  (PH) - 1935

Arthur H. Malinofski  - Ptlm   (PH)  - 1935

Carroll Hanley - Ptlm (PH)  - 1936

William L. Ryan - Ptlm (PH) - 1940

William J. Woodcock  - Ptlm  (PH) - 1943

William S. Knight - Ptlm (PH) - 1943

John B. Bealefeld - Ptlm  (PH) - 1945

Elmer A. Noon - Ptlm (PH) -1946

Fred R. Unger - Ptlm (PH) - 1947

Joseph D. Benedict - Ptlm (PH) - 1948

Thomas J. Burns - Ptlm  (PH) - 1948

John W. Arnold - Ptlm  (PH) - 1948

Elmer W. Weber - Ptlm - 1951

William H. Kraft Jr.  - Ptlm - 1952

James L. Scholl - Ptlm (PH) - 1953

Mary Eileen Hoy - Crossing Guard - 1953

Cecil Patterson Jr.  - Ptlm - 1953

Wilbert J. Elsroad - Ptlm - 1957

Donald L. Hundermark - Ptlm - 1959

Robert L. Taylor - Sgt - (possibly May 1963) 1964

Richard F. Bosak - Det.   (PH) - 1968

Helen Mackall  -  Crossing Guard  - 1970

Henry M. Mickey  - Ptlm    (PH) - 1970

Donald Sager - Ptlm  (PH) - 1970

Stanley Sierakowski   *- Ptlm - 1970

Siegfried Weber - Ptlm - 1971

Raymond Sylvester -  Ptlm - 1971

Kenneth Hayden - Ptlm - 1971

Richard Mioduszewski - Ptlm - 1971

Edward Malecki - Ptlm - 1972

Paul Lioi - Ptlm - 1972

Albert Greaver - Det - 1972

Carmello Curreri - Det - 1972

Norman F. Buchman - Ptlm  (PH) - 1973

Milton I. Spell - Ptlm - 1974 

Gary W. Dresser * - Ptlm - 1975

Jimmy Holcomb * ** - Ptlm - 1976 

Marcellus Ward -  Det - 1984 

Richard T. Miller * - Ptlm (PH) - 1986

Eugene J. Cassidy * - Off - 1987

Jeffrey Wright * - Lt - 1988

Guy E. Gerstel * -  Off - 1988

William J. Martin * - Off (PH) - 1989

Herman L. Brooks  * - Off - 1989

Ira N. Weiner  * - Off   (PH) - 1992

Terry K. Hendrickson - Off - 1992

Gerard G. DeManss -  Sgt - 1992

Frederick Dillon * - Sgt - 1992

Brian D. Bacon - Off - 1996

Owen E. Sweeney Jr. * - Lt  (PH) - 1997

Barry W. Wood - F.O. -(PH)-  1998

Barry Hamilton - Off - 1999

Louis C. Holley  -  Off  - 2000

Jamie A. Roussey - Off   (PH) - 2000

Kevin M. Gavin * - Off PH) - 2000

John D. Platt  - Sgt  (PH) - 2000

Kevin J. McCarthy - Off  (PH) - 2000

Michael J. Cowdery  * - Off  (PH) - 2001

Ronald A. Beverly  * - Off -  2001

Anthony R. Molesky * - Off - 2001

Ralph J. Ciambruschini - Off - 2002

Sean R. Kapfhammer - Sgt - 2002

William P. Hoover - Off - 2002

Crystal D. Sheffield - Off (PH) - 2002

Thomas G. Newman * - Det (PH) - 2002

Gregg B. Boyd - Off  - 2004

Brian D. Winder - Off (PH)  - 2004

Edwin Lane - Off - 2004

Anthony Byrd - Sgt (PH) - 2006

Troy L. Chesley *  - Det (PH) - 2007

Jared E. Stern - Off - 2007

Christopher Timms - Off - 2007

Robert Himes -  Off - 2008

Daniel Harper  * - Off - 2009

Jerome Shaurette  -  Off - 2009

Curtis McMillion - Off - 2009

Keith Romans - Off - 2010

Todd Strohman - Off - 2010

Latosha Tinsley - Off - 2011

Kevin Amy - Off - 2014

Zachary Wein - Off - 2019

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Above and Beyond

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Medal Of Honor

Police Department

City Of Baltimore, Maryland

Awarded by the Police Commissioner to members who distinguish themselves conspicuously by gallantry and courage at the risk of their own lives, above and beyond the call of duty, in an extraordinary act of heroism and bravery without endangering or jeopardizing the lives of others and without detriment in any way to their sworn oath. A member must perform an act so outstanding that it clearly distinguishes superlative courage, beyond the call of duty, from lesser forms of bravery.

A bronze medallion 1 1/2" in diameter with an eagle above the words "Medal of Honor," star centered above the word "Valor." On the outer border, the words "Baltimore Police Department" are inscribed. The reverse side of the medallion has the words "presented to," "by" and "Police Commissioner," above a leaf cluster.

The medallion is attached to a blue ribbon with gold stars. The uniform ribbon is 1 3/8" long x 3/8" wide, blue in color with a gold star centrally mounted. A rectangular blue collar pin 1/2" long x 1/8" wide, with centered gold star, is also awarded.

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Information was researched by Officer Robert "Bobby" Brown

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Detective Thomas P. O’Donnell was awarded the "Roll Of Honor Medal" in 1897 for his capture of the suspect who held up the U.S. Post Office in White Plains, N.Y., and murdered Postmaster Walter Adams, a personal friend of then Governor Theodore Roosevelt.

(See more of this story in the chapter "OUR POLICE 1800-1900)

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Pictured is the actual Roll of Honor medal awarded to Officer Maurice Erdman for Bravery under the most extreme performance of his duty as a Police Officer. He was the 8th known Baltimore Officer to receive this award. Engraved on the reverse side:

November 9, 1914 - Patrolman Maurice C. Erdman - Bravery - Aug. 3rd  1914

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Five men above wear a plain little yellow and black bar with three gold stars above their badges. Few outsiders know that the bar signifies the highest reward the Baltimore Police Department can bestow, the inscription of the wearers name upon the department’s ROLL OF HONOR.

So the little yellow and black bar can be seen on the blue uniforms of:

Sergeant Ignatius M. Benesch, Eastern District

Patrolman Peter Sawecke, Eastern District

Patrolman William Hawkins, Central District

Patrolman Maurice C. Erdman, Northwestern District

Patrolman Joseph Logue, Northern District

The names of fifteen other men have been placed upon that roll since 1900, but eleven died violent deaths to merit the reward, and four have retired from the force.

Eleven heroes' names are inscribed posthumously on. the Roll of Honor -all eleven written there with pistol bullets.

There are but four more names on the Roll of Honor. After long and faithful service to the community, they are retired now and their yellow and black bars are their proudest possessions.

Once it was easier to get on the Roll of Honor, which was established in 1888 and which has a total of forty two names. With the. turn of the century, the restrictions were tightened. There are other rewards for bravery of high order or for brilliant police work. There is commendation, with a plain yellow and black bar as the citation, and high commendation with two silver bars as the visible mark. In the last forty-one years there have been 3,961 such citations.

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Sergeant Francis Devon, 1904

Sergeant Francis P. Devon of the Central District won his for removing explosive powder from a burning building at 2 Light Street in 1904.

Patrolman Maurice C. Erdman 1914

On August 3,1914, Patrolman Erdman was almost killed while arresting Lee Estep, Negro criminal. He still has a scar on his neck from ear to ear as testimony of' his courage in the capture. Erdman found the Negro shooting craps with several cronies in Morris street. He collared the Negro and escorted him to a call box at Preston street and Druid Hill avenue. On the I way the Negro stumbled on purpose, drew out a knife and slashed the patrolman from ear to ear. Dizzy and reeling from loss of blood, Erdman fell to his knees, but reached for his revolver and fired five times at the fleeing culprit. Three bullets hit their mark and killed Estep. Erdman was taken to the Maryland General Hospital, where he recovered after thirty-two stitches were taken in his neck

Patrolman Peter Sawecke 1916

Patrolman Sawecke rescued a woman and her two daughters from their burning home at 1603 Lancaster street on March 7, 1916 before the Fire Department could arrive at the scene. He was patrolling his beat when someone called to him that there was a fire in the home. When he arrived the flames which had started in the kitchen had reached the stairway, where the woman’s husband later was found burned to death. Sawecke obtained a ladder, entered the second floor and carried the three women to safety.

Patrolman William Hawkins 1924

Patrolman Hawkins, while walking near the Custom House in 1924, saw three men in an automobile which had been reported stolen. He called to them to stop, but they started off in a hurry. Hawkins hailed a passing motorist and started in pursuit. During the ensuing chase of many blocks more than twenty shots were exchanged. Finally Hawkins captured the trio in an alley off Trinity street. During the pursuit, the car in which he was riding nearly smashed into a pole when the other swerved to the left side of the street.

Patrolman Joseph Logue 1924

In 1924 Patrolman Logue, then of the Eastern district, saw Miss Helen Hartnett fall into the harbor while watching an automobile accident at Eastern avenue and the Fallsway. In full uniform he dived into the icy water and swam about under the surface until he recovered the girl. He then held her head above the surface until a police boat came to the rescue.

Patrolman Charles Frank 1924

Several months later in a similar lease Patrolman Charles Frank, of the Southern District, was called to settle a dispute between Harry C. Jones and his wife at their home, 1619 Marshall street. After she asked the patrolman to arrest her husband, Jones picked up a pistol from under his cap on a table and fired at Frank, killing him.

Patrolman John Blank, 1924

The last name to appear on the Roll or Honor is that of Patrolman John Blank, of the Northeastern District, who, on February 11,1924, was shot and killed while attempting to seize, three bandits who had blown a safe in a building in the 1400 block of North Central Avenue.

Patrolman Joseph Waechter, 1924

In 1924 Patrolman Joseph Waechter, Traffic Division, plunged. into a hole at Gay and. Baltimore Streets and dragged out two men who had been overcome by gas. His rescue completed he toppled into the hole overcome himself.

Patrolman Frank Latham 1924

On February 29, 1924, Patrolman Frank Latham of the Eastern district was called to 511South Collington Avenue to investigate a fight between Leon Schmidt and his wife. Despite the woman’s warning that her husband was in a desperate mood Latham searched the first floor and then went upstairs. He found Schmidt in a rear room and ordered him out Schmidt answered with a pistol, then hurled the mortally wounded officer down the stairs.

Sergeant Ignatius Benesch 1926

On June 28, 1926, Vannie Lee, a crazed Negro, went berserk on Lafayette Avenue and shot nine persons, two of whom, members of the Police Department, were killed and later were placed on the Roll of Honor. These were Station House Clerk Thomas Dillon, Western District and Patrolman Webster E. Schumann, Northwestern District. Sergeant Benesch, then a patrolman in the Northwest District, arrived on the scene late and found the madman in Shields place. The Officer saw other patrolman coming up Fayette Avenue and started for the negro, who began firing from behind a truck. Benesch was able to reach the opposite side of the truck without being hit by one of the negro’s bullets. But as the policeman closed in and grabbed Lee, the madman struck him on the head with his pistol. While they scuffled the other patrolman arrived in time to make the capture.

Patrolman William Doehler 1927

On August 5, 1927 Patrolman William F. Doehler, of the Northwestern District, answered a call from a loan company in the 900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. A negro was attempting to pawn a watch. Doehler took the watch from the negro and arrested him, taking him to a call box in the 200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. As the policeman reached up to take the telephone off the hook, the negro drew out a pistol and shot his captor in the chest. Doehler was taken to the University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Sergeant Joseph Carroll 1928

Detective Sergeant Joseph Carroll was killed November 19, 1928 when he went to the assistance of a brother officer, Sergeant Frederick W. Carroll, who was taking a prisoner Henry Peterson, to headquarters. The prisoner had drawn a gun on Frederick Carroll, and Joseph Carroll hastened to the scene to assist him. Peterson later died from wounds received from the bullets of the two officers.

Patrolman John Burns, 1931

On January 6, 1931, Patrolman John Burns, of the Northwestern District, and Sergeant Alfred Plitt were called to 582 St. Mary street, where a Negro was threatening to shoot another man. As the policemen entered the hallway of the house, a shot was fired and Officer Burns clumped to the floor. He died the next day at the University Hospital.

Patrolman William Bell, 1932

Patrolman William A. Bell, of the Northwestern District, accompanied by another officer went to 1709 Madison avenue to arrest Walter Wright, alias Pee-Wee, wanted for burglary. As he entered the house, Wright fired and killed Bell instantly. It occurred January 2, 1932.'

Patrolman John Block, 1933

On April 21, 1933. Patrolman John R. J. Block of the Southern district, stopped a car bearing Florida license tags, the occupants of which were reported to have been wanted in connection with a hold of two busses in Ba1timore. As Block questioned the occupants at Hanover and Jack streets one of them drew a pistol and fire at him.Block, died later a the South Baltimore General Hospital.

Patrolman Henry Sudmeier 1934

Patrolman Sudmeier of the Northern District was shot accidentally by a brother officer while apprehending a burglar in a church in 1926. Sudmeier was using a flash in the dark church and the other officers mistook him for the burglar and shot him. For eight years Sudmeier was paralyzed and finally his vitality became so sapped that he died December 20, 1934.

Patrolman Henry T. Feldpusch

Patrolman Henry Feldpusch of the Southern District, saved a man from "freezing.

Patrolman Claude Long

Patrolman Claude E. Long, Southwestern District, dived in to a Gwynns Falls quarry hole in full uniform to rescue a crippled negro boy who had been deserted by his playmates and left to drown.

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Police Honor Roll

22 Killed on Duty

January 21, 1944

On the Police Department's roll of honor are the names of 22 policemen who were shot and killed or met other violent deaths in the discharge of their duties.

More than 73 years separate the first name from that of the last on the list.

How many other names should be included may never be known, as the Police Department archives disclose no record of such data prior to the year 1870.

However, from a musty old book with pages yellowed from age, on file at police headquarters, one learns that police service began in Baltimore city as a regularly constituted department by authority of a special act of the Legislature in 1784. It was not until February 2, 1860. that the Legislature passed an act to form a Board of Police Commissioners to consist of four members and the Mayor of the city.

Among the recorded slayings one finds but two instances where the identity of the policeman's slayer was never learned. These are the cases of Patrolman John Blank, who early on the morning of February 12,1934, was felled by bullets fired at him by safecrackers whom he surprised at work in a building in the 1400 block of North Central Ave., and Patrolman Arthur H. Malnofski. who was found shot to death on Maine Ave. near Gwynn oak Ave. at 1.20 A. M. on October 31, 1935.

Mistaken Identity

Malinofski's body was found by the driver of a milk wagon, who reported the policeman held his flashlight, which was burning, indicating that he had reason to make an investigation of some character but was killed before his mission had been accomplished.

Another case of unusual interest was that of Patrolman Henry W. Sudmeier, of the Northern district, who died in 1934, more than eight years after he had been accidentally shot by a fellow-policeman who mistook him for a thief who had been robbing poor boxes of a church in Mount Washington.

First On The List

The first name on the roll of honor is that of Patrolman James Murphy, who was beaten to death with a bludgeon while attempting to arrest a gang of rowdies in Lexington Market on July 4, 1870. three of his assailants were later arrested, two receiving sentences of 18 years each and the other 15 years in the Maryland Penitentiary

On the night of May 24,1871, Patrolman Joseph Clark, of the Middle district (now Central district), was shot while attempting to quell a disturbance in a house at Holliday and Centre Sts. Several men were charged with the policeman's murder, but the police records do E lot disclose the final outcome of the case.

On August 18, 1872, Patrolman John Christopher was shot and killed by Bud Ford, a colored man, Frederick Rd. and Caton Ave. Ford was tried in Baltimore county for the crime, but the local record does not show the court's verdict.

Record Of Shootings

Patrolman John T. Lloyd was fatally shot on July 4, 1889, while arresting Samuel Cooper at Light West Sts. The records state that Cooper received an 18-year Penitentiary term, later reduced to 8 years by Governor Lowndes.

On August 26, 1895, Patrolman John J. Dailey was shot at Charles and Conway Sts. while dispersing a disorderly crowd. Three of the mob were later arrested and received 15,year terms in the Penitentiary.

John W. Devine, a colored man, was hanged for the fatal shooting of patrolman Charles J. Donohue, of the Northwestern district on May 19,1902. Officer Donohue, in answer to a woman's cries for help, rushed into a house in the 1300 block Whatcoat St., receiving a bullet through the heart as he entered.

Detective Shooting

Detective Sergeant Joseph F. Carroll was instantly killed by a revolver shot fired at him by Henwich Peterson, wanted for a mail truck robbery in New Jersey. Arrested at a hotel by Detective Fred Carroll early on the morning of November 19, 1928, while near the Fallsway entrance to the police headquarters building, Peterson suddenly drew a revolver and backed his captor against the wall.

When the detective attempted to draw his service revolver, Peterson fired at him, the bullet grazing his left temple. Sergeant Carroll was alighting from a police car to go to the assistance of his fellow officer when Peterson fired at him, the bullet entering his heart. Shots from other policemen's revolvers felled Peterson who died from his wounds a few days later at Mercy Hospital.

On July 6,1931, Patrolman John P. Burns, of the Northwestern district, was fatally shot by a demented colored man who ran amuck in the 500 block St. Mary's St.

Patrolman William A. Bell, of the same district, was shot and killed on January 2, 1932, as he started up a stairway of a house in the 1700 block Madison Ave. to arrest a man wanted on charges of assault and disturbing the peace.

Suicide Follows Killing

Patrolman John R. Block, Southern district, was shot and instantly killed shortly after midnight, April 20, 1933, by Kenneth Lewis, of Orlando, Fla., who with two accomplices had held up and robbed the operator of a bus at Charles and 39th. Sts. The bandits made their escape in an automobile, a description of which was broadcast.

At Hanover and Jack Sts. Patrolman Block stopped the car and was in the act of examining its license tags when shot by Lewis. A week later when police arrived to arrest him at a farmhouse near Brushy Fork, W. Va., Lewis committed suicide by shooting himself.

Troy Boyd, a companion, was later arrested and sentenced to 18 years in prison. The third bandit" was a never apprehended.

On October 29, 1936, Patrolman Carroll Hanley, of the Central district, died of injuries received by falling or being thrown from a moving automobile in the vicinity of Twentieth St. and Hargrove alley. His assailant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the Penitentiary.

Turnkey's Case

Frank Wojniak the murderer of Patrolman John Lanahan, turnkey at the old Central Police Station on Saratoga street near Charles street., only recently escaped from the Penitentiary, where he was serving a life sentence for his crime. Arrested on a minor charge July 3, 1919, Wojniak was ordered searched when brought into the police station. As Lanahan walked toward him, Wojniak whipped out a revolver and shot the turnkey through the heart.

Patrolman Frank Latham, of the Eastern district, was instantly killed by a bullet fired at him by Leon Schmidt when he started up a stairway of a house in the 500 block South Collington Ave. on the night of March 2, 1924. Schmidt was wanted on an assault charge. He is now serving a life term in the Penitentiary.

The records disclose a similar killing in the case of Patrolman Charles Frank, of the Southern district. In response to a woman's cries for assistance he dashed up the front steps of the home of Harry C. Jones, 1600 block Marshall St., on the afternoon of June 20. 1924. Jones slammed the front door in the officer's face and then fired several shots through it. He was convicted of the policeman's murder and is now serving a life sentence for his crime.

Double Shooting

On the morning of August 5, 1927, Patrolman Webster E. Schuman and Clerk Thomas R. Dillon, of the Northwestern District, were felled by bullets fired at them by , Vannie Lee, a crazed colored man, who had previously shot a colored girl at Lafayette and Argyle Aves.

Taking refuge behind a wagon, Lee, armed with a rifle and several revolvers, began firing at every policeman he saw. Schuman, standing in the doorway of a near-by store, was struck in the head by one of the bullets, while Dillon, who was just getting out of a patrol wagon, was shot in the stomach. Police bullets a few minutes later killed Lee.

As he awaited the arrival of the patrol wagon at the call box at Pennsylvania Ave. and Dolphin street. on the afternoon of August 5. 1927, with a colored man whom he had arrested in a near-by pawnshop for s stealing a piece of jewelry. Patrolman William F. Doehler was shot s by his prisoner. The man escaped before the arrival of other policemen. Doehler’s assailant was later identified but was never apprehended.

Butcher Knife Case

Patrolman William L. Ryan, also of the Central district, on June 13,1940, observed a man, later identified as Joseph Abato, standing with a butcher knife against the wall of 4 South Gay St. As Ryan approached, Abato. without warning, plunged the knife several times into the policeman's stomach and chest. Although mortally wounded, the policeman grappled with his assailant until he collapsed and fell to the sidewalk. He died a few minute after his arrival at Mercy Hospital.

Abato was arrested at the scene of the crime and charged with murder, but subsequently was declared not guilty by reason of insanity and was sent to the Spring Grove Hospital.

On June 12, of this year, Patrolman William J. Woodcock, of the Central district, died at the Mercy Hospital from a fractured skull, the result of a beating he received an hour earlier in attempting to arrest several alleged disorderly men in the 1000 block of Brentwood Ave.

Ronald Harris was arrested and charged with causing the policeman's death. but later freed after trial in the Criminal Court.

Recent Killing

The most recent killing of a policeman occurred last November 7 t at 10.10 P.M. when Patrolman William Knight, of the Northeastern district, was found shot in a police radio car parked on McDonogh St. near Broadway. Knight and Patrolman John Bianca, his partner in the radio car, had been searching the neighborhood for a man who was reported to have, fired a pistol in an alley adjoining the East Molting Republican Club, a Negro organization, in the 1100 block Rutland Ave.

As they drew up to the place, a shot rang out from the alley, Patrolman Bianca said, and a man ran across Rutland avenue.

Bianca started on foot after the man and Knight, he said, returned to the radio car, declaring he would drive around on Broadway in hope of apprehending the suspect.

Suspected Assailant Dies

Shortly after Knight left him, Bianca reported, he heard a number of shots fired from the direction of McDonogh St. and Broadway. After Knight had been found shot and unconscious in the radio car, police found a colored man, later identified as Thomas Toler, shot in the chest and unconscious, lying on the sidewalk on McDonogh St He died a few minutes after his arrival at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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Mary Hoy BPD Crossing Guard Medal of Honor Recipient

Photo courtesy Sergeant George T. Owens, Sr

Mrs. Mary E. Hoy
Baltimore City Police Crossing Guard
Received the department's highest award
The Medal of Honor
1953

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Largest Mass Homicide in the History of Baltimore City

Gunman Kills 5, and Wounds another

November 23, 1971, Patrolman Kenneth G. Hayden responded to a radio dispatch to investigate a man armed with two rifles. The largest mass homicide in the history of Baltimore City was being perpetrated. The killer used two M14 rifles firing armored piercing ammunition to slaughter five people at random and wound a sixth.  

Upon arrival at the scene, Officer Ken Hayden sighted the suspect wearing military camouflage combat fatigues, a bayonet visible on his cartridge belt, a knapsack filled with 20-round ammunition magazines, two magazine fed M14 semi-automatic rifles, and a crazed blank facial expression.  

Officer Ken Hayden drew his .38 caliber service revolver as he exited the patrol vehicle; aim at the suspect, but a citizen wander onto the scene directly to the rear of the suspect. Fearful for the safety of the citizen being in the line of fire, Officer Ken Hayden aggressively motioned to the citizen to lie down quickly. During these precious seconds, the suspect successfully reloaded the M14 semi-automatic rifle by snapping in another 20-round magazine. The suspect raised the rifle (taking aim at Officer Ken Hayden) just as the citizen quickly ran into a barber shop. The suspect’s first shot burned the right ear of Office Hayden. 

After exchanging several shots with the suspect, Officer Ken Hayden maneuvered himself behind the engine portion of the patrol vehicle for added protection. Several citizens were exiting a building directly to his rear. The Officer (while attempting to reload) stood up to usher the citizens out of harm’s way and back into the building. This act placed the Officer in the gunman’s rifle sights. The gunman fired again penetrating the left rear door of the patrol vehicle, ripped through the front seat, split a nightstick, traveled through an attaché case, continued through the right front wheel panel, penetrating the Officer’s left knee, and embedded itself in a concrete wall. The Officer fired another shot that incapacitated the suspect.  

Officer Ken Hayden was awarded the Baltimore City Police Department’s

“MEDAL OF HONOR" and "CITATION OF VALOR"


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Lieutenant Gerard G. DeManss Medal Of Honor Recipient September 19, 1992

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MEDAL Of HONOR AWARDED
POLICE OFFICER BRIAN D. BACON
Tactical Division/Quick Response Team (QRT)
November 8,1996
While attempting to apprehend a suspect , a team member, Sergeant Christopher Streett, was shot with a .357. While under fire, Officer Bacon, a certified EMT, on his own initiative, took a ballistic body bunker, raised it above his head, crossed directly under the fire zone to get the wounded Sergeant and extract him from the room. A true Baltimore Police Hero
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Kevin Amy Northeast District

Responding to a call for an assault by threat, Officer Amy observed two individuals arguing. During the argument one of the two pulled a shotgun and fired at the other striking him in the groin and thigh which caused him to fall to the ground. To protect himself and the victim Officer Amy fired his weapon at the suspect, who was still attempting to cause harm to his victim. The suspect fled, but was captured and surrendered due to the quick actions of Officer Kevin Amy. For his heroic Actions Officer Amy was awarded the Medal of Honor

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PSOB Disability Benefits Claim

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PSOB Disability Benefits Claim

PSOB Disability Benefits Claim

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Filing a PSOB Disability Benefits Claim:

STEP ONE:
Review the PSOB Fact Sheet (English or en Español) for details regarding the PSOB Disability Benefits Program.

STEP TWO:
Review the PSOB Checklist for Filing a PSOB Disability Benefits Claim (English or en Español), and collect the documents noted.

STEP THREE:
Complete the PSOB Disability Claim information online at https://www.psob.gov/default.aspx.

STEP FOUR:
For technical assistance with submitting your application online or help with technical difficulties, please submit a request for technical support at: https://www.psob.gov/TechSupportRequest.aspx. You will receive a reply within 1 business day.

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We are now acting as a liaison between the Baltimore Police and the PSOB to assist Baltimore Police that have become disabled in the line of duty and feel they might be eligible for PSOB benefits. It is important to read the qualifications close to make sure you meet the requirements, and that you carefully obtain all the needed documentation,

Medically retired officers, or their representatives, and their former employing public safety agency must submit the following documents concerning the line-of-duty injury to file a disability claim with the PSOB Office:

Report of Public Safety Officer’s Permanent and total Disability claim form:  This form must be completed and signed by the disabled officer (or representative) and the head of your former employing agency. Benefits Provider information: A letter or affidavit from the agency’s benefits provider stating the disabled officer is receiving the maximum allowable disability compensation for public safety officers in the agency. This must be on the provider’s letterhead and signed by an authorized official. The benefits provider may be a retirement fund or a government workers’ compensation office. Please note that, for purposes of the PSOB Disability Program, Social Security does not qualify as a benefits provider, even though the officer may be receiving funds from that source. Circumstances of injuries: A statement signed by the head of the former employing agency, on agency letterhead, that includes the officer’s name and title, when and where the incidents occurred, what initiated them, and the nature of the injuries. This statement must also indicate the date on which the officer was medically retired from the agency. Agency investigation (accident/collision/ reconstructive) reports:These reports should contain information relevant to each incident and injury that contributed to the officer’s permanent and total disability. If these reports are unavailable, a statement to that effect must be signed and submitted by the head of the former employing agency. Official toxicology catastrophic reports: If available, these reports must be signed by the official who performed the toxicology analysis immediately following each injury. If a toxicology analysis is not available, a statement to that effect must be signed and submitted by the head of the former employing agency. Tax returns: A copy of each state, local, and federal tax return filed by or on behalf of the public safety officer from the year before the injury to the current year. medical Documentation:Medical documentation must include admission and discharge summaries from each medical facility in which the officer was treated for each of the injuries, as well as a final medical diagnosis. Claimant Statement: A brief statement signed by the disabled officer or representative must also be submitted, that addresses the following questions:

1. What is the highest educational level the disabled officer achieved? Has the disabled officer completed any special training or courses, including military training?

2. Has the disabled officer received any formal vocational evaluations or vocational rehabilitative treatment? If so, what is their current status?

3. Has the disabled officer worked at any job following the injuries? If so, where?

A unique partnership effort of the U.S. Department of Justice; local,   state, tribal, and federal public safety agencies; and national organizations, the Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB) Programs provide death and education benefits to survivors of fallen law   enforcement officers, firefighters, and other first responders, and disability benefits to officers catastrophically injured in the line of duty. The BJA PSOB Office is honored to review the nearly 700   claims submitted each year on behalf of America's fallen and   catastrophically disabled public safety heroes and their loved ones.     

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Copies of: Your Baltimore Police Department Class Photo, Pictures of our Officers, Vehicles, Equipment, Newspaper Articles relating to our department and or officers, Old Departmental Newsletters, Lookouts, Wanted Posters, and or Brochures. Information on Deceased Officers and anything that may help Preserve the History and Proud Traditions of this agency. Please contact Retired Detective Kenny Driscoll.


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How to Dispose of Old Police Items

If you come into possession of Police items from an Estate or Death of a Police Officer Family Member and do not know how to properly dispose of these items please contact: Retired Detective Ken Driscoll - Please dispose of POLICE Items: Badges, Guns, Uniforms, Documents, PROPERLY so they won’t be used IMPROPERLY.

Please contact Det. Ret. Kenny Driscoll if you have any pictures of you or your family members and wish them remembered here on this tribute site to Honor the fine men and women who have served with Honor and Distinction at the Baltimore Police Department.

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Our Wounded

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Our Wounded

Baltimore Police History is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring Baltimore's fallen and injured heroes. More than 160 officers have made the ultimate sacrifice for the City of Baltimore since 1784 We also have a growing list of injured officers, a list that may never be complete. We are honored to preserve their names, their stories and their memories by giving their friends, families, other officers, and citizens the opportunity to look back and remember them, or to get to know them, so we can all honor them and the sacrifices they made.

 

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Line of Duty InjuredAaron J. Stewart

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Alphonso Wright

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Alric Moore

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Alvin Martin

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Andrew Leso

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Arthur E. Kennell, Jr.

Line of Duty Injured

Calvin G. Higdon

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Calvin R. Mencken

Line of Duty Injured

Charles A. Walker

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Charles Benjamin

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Charles Mitchell

Line of Duty Injured

Charles P. Smith

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Daniel J. Calhoun

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David Garayoa

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Donald E. Fisher

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Donna Cooper Line of Duty Injured

Durwood Hood

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Earl Carter

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Edward O'Byrne, Jr.

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Charles P. Smith

Line of Duty InjuredDaniel J. Calhoun

Line of Duty InjuredDavid Garayoa

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Donald E. Fisher

Line of Duty InjuredErnell ThorntonLine of Duty InjuredEugene CassidyLine of Duty InjuredFrancis MillerLine of Duty InjuredFrank Lorah

 

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