Top Cop November 2006

On November 19, 2006 at approximately 2130 hours Hempstead Police responded to a violent mental aided who was threatening his family members and breaking up the house. A Patrol Sergeant and 3 Officers responded and observed a male subject standing in the house armed with a kitchen knife. The Hempstead Officers attempted to subdue the subject by using pepper spray and a taser gun. After deploying the taser gun 3 times with no effect on the subject, the Patrol Supervisor requested Nassau County Emergency Service Unit.

At 2140 hours ESU Units 2421 and 2422 were dispatched to the scene. While en route ESU Police Officers Conn, Dunn, Babinski, and Ivers were getting information that the subject was extremely violent,

they requested to have an ESU Supervisor respond. Both ESU Trucks arrived on scene and began to gather information about the subject. A decision was made to do a tactical entry when the Supervisor arrived. While preparing to do the entry the Officers learned that there were 5 residents, some of them children, locked in an upstairs bedroom. The subject began throwing knives and forks, he broke up furniture and and ran up the stairs to the locked bedroom. The ESU Officers decided they would have to do an immediate entry to safeguard the people in the upstairs bedroom.

As the ESU Officers entered the house the residents ran down the stairs carrying the children in their arms. The subject barricaded himself in the bedroom with furniture against the door. From outside the Hempstead Officers could see flames in the subjects bedroom. The ESU Officers pried the door open and the subject lunged at them with a 12 inch kitchen fork. The hallway was filling with smoke and the bedroom was fully engulfed in flames. As the subject lunged at the Officers with the fork, P.O. Conn was able to grab his arm and along with Officers Dunn and Babinski, pulled him out of the bedroom. The subject continued to struggle violently even though he was severely burned. The 3 Officers pulled the subject out into the hallway where he was tasered by Officer Ivers. The second floor was completely filled with heat and heavy black smoke. The Officers dragged the subject down the hallway and the entire group slid down the staircase. Once on the first floor the subject was restrained and transported to the hospital. The ESU Officers exited the house and the scene was turned over to the Fire Department.

Police Officers Kevin Conn, Charles Dunn, Thomas Babinski and Timothy Ivers worked together as a Team rescuing family members trapped on the second floor with a violent mental aided. They re-entered the second floor of a burning house, using tremendous restraint when
faced with deadly physical force. The Team put their lives in danger and extricated a barricaded mental aided and saved his life. This Union is very proud of these Officers and the courage and knowledge performed by the Emergency Services Unit every day.

Posted Monday, July 9, 2007

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