Bulletin Notes
Bulletin Notes
Law enforcement officers are challenged daily in the performance of their duties; they face each challenge freely and unselfishly while answering the call to duty. In certain instances, their actions warrant special attention from their respective departments. The Bulletin also wants to recognize those situations that transcend the normal rigors of the law enforcement profession.
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| Detective Howell |
| Officers of the Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Police Department responded to a call for three children who had fallen into a local river and could not be located. The officers found two of the children clinging to logs that were resting against a tree in the middle of the river; the third child had managed to make it to shore. The children were having difficulty holding onto the wet logs and were observed to slip back into the water on several occasions. Detective Tyler Howell, one of the officers at the scene, entered the river and swam over 30 feet against a very strong current in approximately 10 feet of water. Averting downed limbs and trees floating by, he reached the log jam the children were on and crawled along adjacent logs to reach them. He then secured the children in safety equipment, and they were pulled to shore by firemen, police officers, and lifeguards from the city pool. |
| Nominations for the Bulletin Notes should be based on either the rescue of one or more citizens or arrest(s) made at unusual risk to an officer’s safety. Submissions should include a short write-up (maximum of 250 words), a separate photograph of each nominee, and a letter from the department’s ranking officer endorsing the nomination. Submissions can be mailed to the Editor, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, FBI Academy, Quantico, VA 22135 or e-mailed to leb@fbiacademy.edu. |
