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Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor (MOV)

JUSTINFO Newsletter: July 15, 2019

Announcements

  • All first responders, including EMS personnel, firefighters, and law enforcement officers are eligible to be nominated for the Medal of Valor—our nation's highest public safety honor. All nominations must be submitted by July 31, 2019 | BJA

Funding

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WANTED: MEDAL OF VALOR NOMINATIONS

Medal of Valor

When the officers simultaneously came upon the scene of a head-on collision in Tennessee on February 13, 2016, the cars were already in flames. 

Then-Sergeant William Lee Buchanan, of the Avery County Sheriff's Office, and Emergency Medical Technician Sean Ochsenbein, of the Putnam County Rescue Squad, quickly determined that one driver was already dead.  The other driver was unconscious and trapped in his car, his...

Extraordinary Valor

By Matt Dummermuth, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs

2019 MOV
President Trump presents the Medal of Valor to Senior Oregon State Police Trooper Nicholas Cederberg.

Officer Brent Thompson of the Dallas, Texas, Area Rapid Transit Police Department, along with other Texas officers, was controlling traffic as a protest march passed through an intersection. Suddenly, gunfire hit the officers from about half a block away. Three died and three more were wounded in the attack’s early...

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