Excellent Police Duty (EPD)
The Excellent Police Duty (green and white bar with gold vertical bars) is awarded for:
- An intelligent act materially contributing to a valuable accomplishment, OR
- Submission of a device or method adopted to increase efficiency in an administrative or tactical procedure.
Read more about this topic: Medals Of The New York City Police Department
Famous quotes containing the words excellent, police and/or duty:
“Several moralists have recommended it as an excellent method of becoming acquainted with our own hearts, and knowing our progress in virtue, to recollect our dreams in a morning, and examine them with the same rigour that we would our most serious and most deliberate actions.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that’s something no police in the world can spot.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)