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CIT-NJ Officer of the Year Award

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Port Authority PD Veteran Honored For Rescuing Suicidal Subjects From GWB Port Authority PD Veteran Honored For Rescuing Suicidal Subjects From GWB
Port Authority PD Veteran Honored For Rescuing Suicidal Subjects From GWB A Port Authority police sergeant with a history of preventing suicides at the George Washington Bridge received a prestigious award on Thursday. Sgt. Michael Barry, a 33-year department veteran who’s been assigned to the bridge command staff the past five, was named Officer of the Year by the New Jersey Crisis Intervention Team. Barry, who became only the second PAPD officer ever to be given the CIT-NJ award, directly kept would-be suicides from jumping from the GWB but also has trained colleagues to do the same, the authority's Lenis Rodrigues said. Just three months ago, he and a supervi…

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by Jerry DeMarco