VILLAS –– The Lower Township Police Department held an award ceremony to recognize exceptional officers at Township Hall Sept. 9.
Police Chief Edward Donohue led the ceremony after Cub Scout Troop 87 led the public in reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The Lower Township branch of the Veteran of Foreign Wars Post No. 5343 presented the colors.
The most prestigious award of the night, the David C. Douglass “Officer of the Year” award, was presented to Detective Arthur Mason by Debbie Douglass, widow of the slain officer.
Douglass was killed in the line of duty on Feb. 18, 1994, the department’s first officer slain in the line of duty, and he is remembered as an outstanding police officer.
VFW Commander Richard Foster presented Debbie Douglass with a check for $1,500 to go towards the David C. Douglass Scholarship Fund.
Read more in the Herald’s Sept. 17 print edition.
