Law Enforcement & Community Service Awards

2023

U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker presented the annual law enforcement and community service awards to individuals and groups for their work to reduce gun violence, provide alternatives to armed responses to mental health crises, improve school safety, volunteer to support crime prevention programs, aggressively investigate child exploitation, and help restored citizens return to the community after serving time behind bars.

“Building safe communities requires a mosaic of people and groups who look out for each other and bring their own individual skills and abilities to work together for a greater good,” U.S. Attorney Parker said.

The awardees include:

• Cincinnati Police Sergeant Donald Elsaesser, and Cincinnati Police Officers Joshua Jordan, Rachel White, Jeremy Randolph, and Lilgenia Wharton received the Kaia Grant Badge of Bravery and Sacrifice
• Cincinnati Police Officer Jeremy Burroughs, the Law Enforcement Excellence Award
• Dayton Police Detectives Dustin J. Phillips, Geoffery T. Orndorff, and Lucas A. Rose, with the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, the Project Safe Neighborhood’s Guardian Award
• FBI Special Agent Andrea Kinzig, the Project Safe Childhood Shield of Innocence
• Dayton Mediation Response Unit (MRU), under the direction of Coordinator Raven Cruz-Loiaza, the Polaris Community Service Award
• Centerville Safe, Serve Thy Neighbor Award (Dayton)
• Mr. Bob Weidlich of the Springdale Police Department’s Citizen’s Police Academy Alumni. Serve Thy Neighbor Award (Cincinnati)
• U.S. District Judge Edmund A. Sargus Jr, Pastor Donald Fitzgerald, former Chief of U.S. Probation John Dierna, and Alfred Young of Restored Citizens, Serve Thy Neighbor Award; and
• Ms. Hope L. Harvey Dudley of UCanSpeakForMe in Hamilton County, U.S. Attorney’s Special Commendation