Downtown Optimist Club Honors Four Metro Officers
The Downtown Optimist Club honored the outstanding work of four Metropolitan police officers during its annual Respect for Law Week luncheon.
Those receiving plaques were:
- North Precinct Detective Danny Satterfield, whose investigative skills helped clear five homicide cases;
- South Precinct Officer James Sullivan, a 29-year police department veteran, whose consistently high quality investigations led to arrests in major theft, burglary and armed robbery cases;
- East Precinct Officer Jacob Pilarski, who was wounded in the shoulder last October while investigating a shots fired call in a public housing development; and
- Hermitage Precinct Officer Paul Harris, who apprehended two armed robbery suspects after they went on a crime spree and pulled guns on three innocent victims at different locations.
"I am very grateful to the Downtown Optimist Club for recognizing the outstanding work of our officers year after year," Chief Ronal Serpas said.
Pictured (l-r) Jim Ruppert, Optimist Club Respect for Law Week Chairman,
Officer Jacob Pilarski, Detective Danny Satterfield, Chief Ronal
Serpas, Officer Paul Harris and Officer James Sullivan.