Camas police honored at inaugural awards ceremony

The stories shared during the Camas Police Department’s inaugural awards ceremony on Thursday, May 25, showed a wide range of brave and heroic acts — running toward a burning vehicle to help save its occupants; rushing alone into a middle school to confront an armed student trying to access a locked classroom; talking suicidal people off roofs and bridges; performing life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); chasing down sexual assault suspects; and cracking open a decade-long elder-abuse case.

Camas Police Chief Tina Jones thanked her staff for their dedication to public safety and said Camas police regularly work to save lives and help community members stay safe.