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Menomonee Falls police honor river-rescue officers; chief briefs trustees on staffing, crime trends
Summary
At the Oct. 20 Village Board meeting, Police Chief Mark Waters presented awards to officers involved in an August river rescue, recognized an emergency manager for flood response, and reported staffing levels, crime trends and planned data projects.
Police Chief Mark Waters presented departmental awards at the Menomonee Falls Village Board meeting on Monday, Oct. 20, recognizing officers who took part in an August river rescue and summarizing the department’s third-quarter operations and staffing challenges.
Waters described the Aug. 11 response during historic floods when officers and Fire Department personnel rescued two people who had fallen into the Menomonee River. “You can see the subject in the river right there floating, downriver,” Waters said while showing still images from the incident, and later told trustees, “we were very fortunate that nobody died that day.”
The board recognized Police Officer Matthew Curran with the department’s John Taylor Jr. Award for Valor; Curran was presented the award by Barb Taylor, widow of the department’s only officer killed in the line of duty. Several other officers received letters of commendation and life‑saving awards for…
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