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Editor,
Our new police chief certainly honored the right folks this year when Dirk Miller was cited as officer of the year and Shelley Tolliver was named MPD’s civilian employee of the year.
I had an opportunity to watch both of them in action at the same time, assisting a mentally troubled motorist who could not get his car in gear while blocking a major intersection near the courts. The driver kept repeating the same action, grinding his gears, and getting the same result. He was clearly upset and going nowhere.
Both officers were direct, firm and courteous with the driver who clearly needed assistance in a delicate situation that neither I nor my neighbors would have been able to handle as well as those two deserving sworn officers of the law.
– Jamie Jobb
