ROCKVILLE, Maryland — Rockville’s 37th Annual Public Safety Awards honored members of the Rockville City Police Department for valor, lifesaving, meritorious, distinguished and unsung-hero service, according to a July 1 city report.

The city published an official awards photo showing honorees with certificates and identified the recognitions connected to the ceremony. ThinBlueNews is limiting this story to the names and award categories reported by Rockville, because the city item did not include full incident narratives for each award.

Valor, meritorious service and distinguished service honorees

Rockville said the pictured recipients included Sgt. Anthony Casabona, Officer Sara Epps, Cpl. Nicholas Weiss, Sgt. Jeff Park, Cpl. Eddie Roman, Officer Dakota Durant, Sgt. Jon Berry and Officer Damoni Smith, who were recognized for Meritorious Service.

The city listed Maj. Bill Nieberding, Lt. Javier Baquero and Cpl. Ronnie Crowe as Distinguished Service recipients. Officer Elvis Nguyen was listed as a Medal of Valor honoree in the city’s caption.

Lifesaving and additional honorees

Rockville also identified several honorees who were not pictured in the official photo. Those included Cpl. Tyler Haines and Officer Henry Martinez, listed for the Medal of Valor; Officer Chance Thrasher, listed for Distinguished Service and Meritorious Service; and Cpl. Brandon Thomas, listed for Distinguished Service.

The city said Cpl. Robin St. Clair and Officer Samuel Kim were recognized with the Lifesaving Award. Rockville also listed Cpl. Joseph McCann, Cpl. David Corradetti and Neighborhood Services Officer Fred Mowell, with Mowell identified as an Unsung Hero Award recipient.

Why this recognition matters

Awards posts like this are not only ceremony coverage. They give local residents a public record of names, service categories and the quiet work that often happens before a story becomes widely known — lifesaving response, dangerous-call decision-making, long-term public-safety service and neighborhood support.

For Support Law Enforcement readers, the Rockville ceremony is a straightforward reminder to learn the names of the officers and public-safety personnel their own city recognizes each year, then thank them while the good work is still fresh in the community record.

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