The audience grows larger each year. The 21st annual ceremony of the 2014 Top Cops Awards, sponsored by the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO), was held on May 13, 2014 in Washington, D. C. and 960 were in attendance — the largest crowd ever.
During the ceremony, 53 law enforcement officers from across the country were honored.
Here is this year’s roll call of Top Cop honorees.
FBI Hostage Rescue Team
Brock Bahe
Rodney O. Draper
Christian Galeski
J. Michael Montoya
Matthew R. Nagle
Phoenix (Ariz.) Police Department
Detective Fabian Gonzalez
Washington Metropolitan Police Department
Dorian DeSantis
Emmanuel Smith
Scott Williams
U. S. Park Police
Carl E. Hiott
Andrew W. Wong
Naval Investigative Service
Brian E. Kelley
Edward J. Martin
Joshua D. Powell
Miami-Dade (Fla.) Police Department
Mario Gutierrez
North Liberty (Iowa) Police Department
Adam E. Olson
Chris Shine
Cody Lane Jacobsen
Boston (Mass.) Police Department
Kevin E. Waggett
Kenneth M. Conley
John B. Joyce
Joseph G. Scaringello
Omar Borges
Gergory R. Eunis
Jarrod Gero
Jean Gerard Jean Louis
Terence Long
Gregory McCormick
Richard G. Moriarty
John Moynihan
John M. Noberini
Jason A. Nunez
Scott Pulchansingh
Dennis O. Simmonds
Walter J. Suprey
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit Police
Richard Donohue
Massachusetts State Police
Christopher J. Dumont
Watertown Police Department
John C. P. MacLellan
Jeffrey J. Pugliese
Miguel A. Colon, Jr.
Michael W. Comick
Timothy B. Menton
Joseph Reynolds
Jean S. Sarkissian
Mercer County (New Jersey) Sheriff’s Office
William Miller
Trenton (New Jersey) Police Department
James E. Lets
Edgar Rios
New York City Police Department
Joseph John Koch
Solon (Ohio) Police Department
Steven Davis
Nicholas Kline
Dallas (Texas) Police Department/U. S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force
Frederick E. Frazier
Kurt Hibbets
Grapevine (Texas) Police Department
Ryan Sayre