Police chiefs group to honor officers

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. » The Police Chiefs Association of Ulster County on Wednesday will honor several men and women who performed outstanding police work or put themselves in harm’s way to help others.

Among the award recipients are people who helped others during fires or helped tend to the injured. The awards also acknowledge investigations by officers that led to the arrest of an alleged murderer and to stemming the flow of narcotics within the county, among others. The awards will be presented to: Meritorious Police Service: Heroism to New York state police Trooper Jennifer Johnson. Meritorious Police Service: Investigation to Kingston police Officer Edward Shuman.

Meritorious Police Service: Team Investigation to the Rosendale Police Department and the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement and Narcotics

Team.

Meritorious Police Service: Team Investigation to the Ellenville village police department, Ulster County District Attorney’s Special Victim’s Unit, the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office and the state police Forensic Investigation Unit.

Meritorious Police Service: Police Service to Rosendale police Officer Patricia Vincent

Meritorious Police Service: Life Saving to New York state police Trooper Jessica Romero and Ulster County sheriff’s Deputy

Sean McMahon.

Meritorious Police Service: Life Saving to Kingston police Officers Jeremy Arciello, Tiffany Baney and Anthony North.

Meritorious Police Service: Life Saving to Ulster town police Officer Gary Short and Meritorious Citizenship: Life Saving to Eric Letterio of Hyde Park and Sean Nestler of Hurley.

Meritorious Citizenship: Life Saving to Madelyn Haynes of New Paltz.

Meritorious Police Service: Life Saving to New Paltz police Officer Eric Bernhardsen and Meritorious Citizenship: Life Saving to Daryl Costello of Kerhonkson.

Meritorious Citizenship:

Justice to Dino Gjokaj of Lloyd.

Meritorious Citizenship: Justice to the Kelder family.

A special recognition award will also be presented to Maryann DeGroodt of Kingston.

The Police Chiefs Association of Ulster County 2018 Awards Banquet will start at 5:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour at Novella’s, 2 Terwilliger Lane, New Paltz. Tickets for $40 per person or $70 per couple can be purchased by contacting Maryann DeGroodt between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at Academy General Insurance, 237 Fair St., Kingston or by phone at (845) 338-5510.

The guest speaker will

be veteran and former U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook.

Gibson joined the Army in 1986 and served two tours in the first Gulf War, rising to the rank of colonel. In 2010, he was elected to represent the 19th Congressional District, which comprises all of Columbia, Ulster, Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Schoharie and Sullivan counties, and parts of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery and Rensselaer counties. He was re-elected in 2012 and 2014. In 2015, Gibson announced he would not seek re-election to a fourth term.

Details of the awards will be published at a later date.