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San Francisco Police honor 16 officers with Medals of Valor for multiple life‑saving actions
Summary
The San Francisco Police Department honored 16 officers at a Medal of Valor ceremony at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center for acts including a multiunit fire rescue, a knife intervention and the arrest of an armed serial robber; several officers also received lifesaving awards.
Sergeant Rachel Kelshaw, the Police Commission secretary, opened the San Francisco Police Department’s Medal of Valor ceremony at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center, where 16 officers were recognized for acts of bravery and lifesaving interventions.
The awards cover a range of incidents, from an entry into a burning multiunit building to rescue residents to the apprehension of an armed serial robber. Commission President Susie Loftus said the medals honor "extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty," and Chief Gregory P. Sir praised the officers as "ordinary people doing the extraordinary."
Captain Daniel Perea read a citation for a Dec. 11, 2013, fire at 2911 Sixteenth Street in which Sergeant Julian Dembski and a…
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