Alaska Department of Public Safety
Honors Those Who Serve
Nagy, Beck, Sharkey,
Charlton & Piscoya of Ketchikan Receive Awards
April 09, 2002
Tuesday - 3:35 pm
 Last Friday the Department of Public
Safety held their annual award's banquet to honor the men and
women, both civilian and commissioned, who serve in the department.
Highlights of the evening included
brief speeches from Lt. Governor Fran Ulmer and Department of
Public Safety Commissioner Glenn G. Godfrey.
During the ceremony, Senate
President Rick Halford presented citations honoring James Moen
and Hans Roelle. Troopers Moen and Roelle were killed in the
line of duty in 2001.
Several Department of Public
Safety employees from Ketchikan were among those statewide to
be honored. The Division of Fish and Wildlife Protection honored
Boat Officer Lawrence Nagy and Trooper Anthony Beck of Ketchikan.
Nagy received the A Detachment Civilian Employee of the Year
Award and Beck received the A Detachment Trooper of the Year
Award.
The Division of Alaska State
Troopers presented the A Detachment Civilian Employee of the
Year Award to Julie-Dee Sharkey of Ketchikan and awarded a Purple
Heart to Sgt. Lonny Piscoya of Ketchikan for injuries received
on October 31, 2001 in Ketchikan. Trooper A.J. Charlton of Ketchikan
received a Commendation for Honorable Service from the Division
of Alaska State Troopers for action on November 19, 2001 in Ketchikan.
Awards were presented to those
honored by the directors of each division along with Commissioner
Godfrey.
Those who received awards
statewide are:
Division of Administrative
Services
Employee of the Year
State Crime Lab
Employee of the Year
Division of Fire Prevention
Civilian Employee of the Year
Deputy Fire Marshal of the
Year
Division of Fish and Wildlife
Protection
Civilian Employee of the Year
- A Detachment and Division
Level - Boat Officer Lawrence Nagy (Ketchikan)
- B Detachment - Fish and Wildlife
Protection Aide Jamie Kirkmeyer (Palmer)
- C Detachment - Boat Officer
Mike Reuter (Kodiak)
Support Services
Trooper of the Year
- A Detachment - Trooper Anthony
Beck (Ketchikan)
- B Detachment and Division
Level - Trooper Bernard Chastain (Glennallen)
- C Detachment - Sgt. Pete Mlynarick
(King Salmon)
- D Detachment - Trooper Dennis
Roe (Fairbanks)
Division Supervisor of the
Year
- Captain Howard Starbard, B
Detachment
Division of Alaska State
Troopers
Civilian Employee of the Year
- A Detachment - Julie-Dee Sharkey
(Ketchikan)
- B Detachment - Jill Veloske-Bybee
(Talkeetna)
- C Detachment - Trish Conlan
(Dillingham)
- D Detachment - Angie Wills
(Fairbanks)
- E Detachment - Jan Redford
(Soldotna)
- H Detachment - Myrna Wade
(Academy Sitka)
- I Detachment and Division
Level - Sue Davis (Anchorage)
Trooper of the Year
- A Detachment - Trooper Matthew
Hightower (Haines)
- B Detachment - Investigator
Margie Escobar (Palmer)
- C Detachment - Corporal Anthony
April (Bethel, now at Academy, Sitka)
- D Detachment and Division
Level - Sgt. David Drvenkar (Fairbanks)
- E Detachment - Corporal Jim
Helgoe (Soldotna, now at Academy, Sitka)
- H Detachment - Corporal Steve
Hall (Academy, Sitka)
- I Detachment - Investigator
Craig Allen (Anchorage)
Court Service Officer of the
Year
Village Public Safety Officer
of the Year
- Corporal Melvin Andrew (Manokotak)
Division Supervisor of the
Year
- Captain Ed Harrington, C Detachment
Commendation for Honorable
Service
- Admin. Clerk Jody Fenton (Soldotna)
- Dispatcher Tammy Goggia (Soldotna)
- Mechanic Gene Wilcox (Aircraft)
- Admin Clerk Lisa Laird (Cordova)
- Pilot Mel Nading for action
taken on 8/18/01 on Metal Creek.
- Trooper Matt Dobson (Bethel)
- Major James Cockrell (Anchorage)
- Troopers Scott Johnson and
Mark Eldridge, for action on 9/3/01 in Fairbanks
- Trooper A.J. Charlton (Ketchikan)
for action on 11/19/01 in Ketchikan
- Trooper Richard Dykstra for
action taken 12/8/01 in Kodiak
- Troopers Bryan Barlow and
Mark Eldridge for action on 7/6/01 in Fairbanks
Commendation for Valor
- Trooper Larry Erickson for
action on 7/6/01 in Fairbanks
Purple Heart
- Sgt. Lonny Piscoya (Ketchikan)
for injuries received on 10/31/01 in Ketchikan
Commissioner of the Department
of Public Safety
Commendation for Honorable
Service
- Dean Guaneli, Chief Assistant
Attorney General
- Gretchen Pence, Special Assistant
to the Commissioner.
- Greg Wilkinson, Public Information
Officer
The Department of Public Safety's
annual award's banquet is an independently funded function. The
banquet was held in Anchorage.
Source of News Release &
digital photos:
The Alaska Department of Public
Safety
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