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APD presents lifesaving and meritorious-service medals for multiple emergency responses
Summary
At the same ceremony APD awarded lifesaving medals to officers who intervened in suicide attempts, a severe bleeding injury and a bridge fall, and gave meritorious-service recognition for crowd-control and other actions.
During the Austin Police Department’s quarterly awards ceremony, supervisors read nominations and presented lifesaving and meritorious-service medals for several incidents in which officers rendered immediate aid or led critical responses.
Sergeant Wu described a Nov. 10, 2024, incident involving Detective Davis, who arrived after a witness reported a male throwing a female from a bridge. According to the nomination read at the ceremony, Detective Davis climbed down bridge supports, pulled the female from water where her head was “halfway underwater,” and coordinated with Austin Fire Department personnel to extricate her; the nominator said that Davis’s actions “ultimately led to the victim getting the medical assistance she required to save her life.”
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