Police1 Staff Report
(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- Pouring rain and 35 degree temperature couldn’t dampen the spirits of 140 motorcycle officers from 38 agencies in eight states who competed this past weekend in the three-day Fourth Annual Gulf Coast Police Motorcycles Skills Championship.
Hosted this year by the Baton Rouge Police Department, the event is expected to raise more than $20,000 for the Dream Day Foundation, an organization formed by local business leaders that supports patients of St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis.
Riders ability and agility were judged in five different traffic-cone-laned courses during the competition.
Food and fraternity highlighted the event as participants feasted on Louisiana’s famous Jambalya Thursday evening and shrimp and catfish on Friday, according to Lieutenant Michael Coulter of the Baton Rouge Traffic Department who organized and hosted the event.
More than $4,000 was raised in an auction merchandise and more than 100 door prizes were distributed to contestants.
Lt. Jimmy Fullen of the Galveston, Texas Independent School District Police Department organized the first competition , which the Galveston department hosted for its first two years.
Among departments represented at the event were riders from Broward County, Kissimmee and Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Fairfax County and Arlington, Virginia; Fort Bend County, Galveston Independent School District, Garland, Fort Worth, Corsicana, Plano and Irving, Texas; the District of Columbia; Florence, Alabama; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, Opelousas; and Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. If your department is interested in joining next year’s event contact Lt. Coulter at the Baton Rouge department.
First Place
David Wallace, Baton Rouge PD
Second Place
Scotty Hammond, Baton Rouge PD
Third Place
Steve Rossman, Broward Co, SO, FL
Fourth Place
Rick Dabe Ft. Lauderdale PD, FL
Fifth Place
Hayden Brown, LA. State Univ. PD, LA
First Place
Mark Payton, Fairfax Co. PD, VA
Second Place
Dave Dailey, Fairfax Co. PD, VA
Third Place
Pat O’Hara , Fairfax Co. PD, VA
Fourth Place
Kenny Zalaskus, Fairfax Co. PD, VA
Fifth Place
Jeremy Rima, Arlington PD, VA
First Place
James Haddock, Kissimmee PD, FL
Second Place
Jeff Meador, Ft. Bend Co. SO, TX
Third Place
Willie Alcocer, Galveston Ind. Sch. Dist. PD, TX
Fourth Place
Keith Mobley, Kissimmee PD, FL
First Place
Doyle Davis, Tulsa PD, OK
Second Place
Chris Byrd, Garland PD, TX
Third Place
Stephen Dye, Garland PD, TX
Fourth Place
David Moiteram, , Garland PD, TX
Fifth Place
Steven Smedley, Tulsa PD, OK
First Place
Dwayne Lowrey, Garland PD, TX
Second Place
R. M. McClellen, Ft. Worth PD, TX
Third Place
Glen Shaw, Garland PD, TX
Fourth Place
Robert Mills, Ft. Worth PD, TX
Fifth Place
David Hanisch, Corsicana PD, TX
Harley-Davidson (I & II)
Scotty Hammond, Baton Rouge PD, LA
Kawasaki Stock
Chris Byrd, Garland PD, TX
Kawasaki Modified
R. M. McCLellen, Ft. Worth PD, TX
First Place
Jeff Seymour, Ft. Worth PD, TX
Second Place
John McCardle, Metro DC PD
Third Place
Eldon Cornette, Opelousas PD, LA
Harley-Davidson
William Anderson, Florence PD, AL
Kawasaki
Philip Rich, Plano PD, TX
First Place
David D. Wallace; Jeffrey Scott Hammond
Baton Rouge PD, LA
Second Place
Pat O’Hara; Mark Payton
Fairfax Co., VA
Third Place
Carl Dabadie; Todd Weishar
Baton Rouge PD, LA
First Place
Chris Byrd; Stephen Dye
Garland PD, TX
Second Place
Danny Gammon; Kevin Crenshaw
Irving PD, TX
Third Place
Glen Shaw; Kirk Pryor
Garland PD, TX
First Place
Baton Rouge PD, LA
Wallace - Hammond - Leduff - Dabadie
Second Place
Fairfax Co. PD, VA
Dailey - Payton - O’Hara - Zalaskus
Third Place
Broward Sheriff’s Office, FL
Geary - Lerman - Rossman - Adkins
Fourth Place
Ft. Lauderdale PD, FL
Dabe - House - Machurick - Polan
Fifth Place
Jefferson Parish SO, LA
Hebert - Dupuis - Adams - Lonero
First Place
Garland PD, TX
Lowrey - Shaw - Byrd - Dye
Second Place
Tulsa PD, OK
Davis - Smedley - Stendel - Melchior
Third Place
Irving PD, TX
Niederhaus - Gammon - Crenshaw - Krebsbach
Fourth Place
Ft. Worth PD, TX
McClellen - Mills - Seymour - Pierson
Fifth Place
Plano PD, TX
Cheshier - Tucker - Knapp - Rich
First Place
Fairfax Co. PD, VA Team “A”
Dailey - O’Hara - Payton - Zalaskus
Second Place
Baton Rouge PD, LA
Dabadie - Leduff - Wallace - Hammond
Third Place
Fairfax Co. PD, VA Team “B”
Nicholson - Thomas - Beckman - Bates
Fourth Place
Broward Co. SO, FL
Geary - Licata - Rossman - Atkins
Fifth Place
Ft. Lauderdale PD, FL
Polan - House - Dodd - Dabe