Coba Newsletter 0196 (gh-01)

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CORRECTION OFFICERS HONORED AT CITY HALL ME.DAL DAY CEREMONIES Scores of Correction Officers received the Department's highest honors during this autumn's Medal Day Ceremonies attended by Mayor Giuliani, top Correction Department officials and leaders of the Correction Department unions. C.O.B.A. President Norman Seabrook said in a statement prepared for the event: "I am gratified to be addressing Correction Officers and the Department they serve so capably on this very important and pre stigious day. Of course. all Correction Officers deserve a medal each and every day for the difficult and dangerous job they do by patrolling and keeping the peace in our city's toughest precincts, the C.O.B..A. PresIdent Norman seabrook (center) applauds as Mayor Rudolph Giunanl congratuJa1es Correction Officer Georgie Solo of the Elmhurst Hospital Prison Ward at city jails. We at the Correction recenl Medal Day ceremonies. C.O. Soto was named C.O.B.A-'s first ever ...Correction Officers' Benevolent Association Officer of the Vear:' understand that the medals you are awarded on this day are for service above and beyond t.he call of duty, and we are particularly proud of those of our members who earned these accolades. By honoring these select officers we are honoring all of you." The C.O.B.A. conferred its first ever "Member of the Year" medal upon an officer who has shown extraordinary courage in a life-threatening incident. This year's winner was Correction Officer Georgie Soto of the Elmhurst Hospital Prison Ward who earned the recognition for an off-duty incident on July 12~ 1995. in which he - while unarmed - managed to capture an armed robber who was a suspect in numerous robberies in upper Manhattan over the past several months. <-