Heroics of NCC Public Safety is Awarded

GARDEN CITY- Nassau Community College honored the courageous nature of its employees over the past year at its 2nd Annual Public Safety Awards on April 25th. NCC Director of Public Safety Martin J. Roddini emceed the ceremony and honored dozens of CSEA members with either the medal of honor, commendation medal, meritorious duty medal, or excellent duty medal all for going above and beyond what was required of them.

The service started with the NCC Color Guard doing the Presentation of Colors. NCC President Sean Fanelli spoke as well. “We are very lucky to have such a great public safety crew,” Fanelli said. NCC Public Safety works closely with the Office of Emergency Management at the Nassau County Police Department to help prevent any problems on campus.

CSEA members awarded included Douglas Griffin with the Meritorious Duty Medal for saving a girl stuck in an elevator on November 6th. Frank Angelo and Michael Berg were given the Excellent Duty medal for breaking up a fight and getting the perpetrator arrested. William McDermott and Diane Stachniewicz responded to a false fire alarm being pulled on November 1st and calmed the situation to avert any disaster.

Those are just some of the many situations that 30 people were honored for on this occasion. CSEA congratulates all the honorees and encourages them to keep up the good work.

Douglas Griffin receives his Meritorious Duty Medal.	NCC’s Color Guard