PORTSMOUTH, Va. – For the 19th year, The Greater Hampton Roads Regional Crime Lines honored the area’s best officers and deputies at the annual Top Cop Awards Dinner.
The event was held Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Portsmouth Renaissance Hotel.
The top honor went to SPO Stanford Allen of the Chesapeake Police Dept. He was recognized for his work dismantling a large-scale drug trafficking organization.
Stanford’s commitment enabled his team to prosecute 28 people in the federal system and countless others in the state system.
Here are the other people honored at the awards dinner:
Decker Award for an individual – Marie Caulford
Chesapeake Police Department – Senior Police Officer Stanford Allen
Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office – Investigator Jason Schnurr
Hampton Police Department – Senior Corporal Scott W. Anderson
Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s Office – Deputy Alex F. Johnson
James City County Police Department – Master Police Officer James “Jim” Miller
Newport News Police Department –Officer Taylor R. Powell
Norfolk –Investigators Romel Ruiz, Andrew Mondie, Richard Stocks and Darrick Davis, Detectives Martin Zelada and Joshua Clingerman, Sergeants Brandon Goins, Guadencio Dajero and Joseph Garrett and Special Agent Michael Wiley (Formerly of the Norfolk PD)
Portsmouth Police Department – Homicide Unit: Detective Johnta Thomas, Detective William Baker, Detective Stanley Alexander, Detective John Humphries
Smithfield Police Department – Officer William Wooley
Suffolk Police Department – Officer Corey Hubbard
Virginia Beach Police Department – Sergeant Brian K. Ricardo
Williamsburg Police Department – Officer Heather Ziegler
Windsor Police Department – Detective Robert B. Swan
York Poquoson Sheriff’s Office – Master Deputy Kekoa-Dearhart
Lifetime Achievement – Major Ron Montgomery of the York Poquoson Sheriff’s Office
The awards dinner is also the organization’s largest fundraiser. Money raised through the event’s silent auction is used to pay for the 1-888-LOCK-U-UP telephone service and P3 computer software that enables law enforcement to receive anonymous tips.
