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Northampton's Finest Receive Police Awards

At the January 22, 2014 Northampton Supervisors meeting several police officers were honored with special recognition awards.  Among the awards and recognition presented were:
Commendation for Valor awarded to Officer Timothy Friel who was wounded during an exchange of gunfire in a 4/13/13 incident.
Commendation for Heroism to Corporal Cully and Officer Laub for a 3/19/13 fire rescue. A Letter of Commendation was also presented to Officer Kenney for this incident.
Commendation for Heroism awarded to Officer Jainnini for removing a motorist from a burning vehicle on 7/7/13.  Also, Officer Wyant was issued a Commendatory citation for this incident.
Letters of Commendation were issued to Officers Robertson and Martin for a 6/16/13 fire rescue at a constuction site.
Acting Lt. Steve LeCompte presided and Chief Mike Clark presented the awards.
A video of the presentations can be viewed at the following YouTube link http://youtu.be/0zz-K53FD2o

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