Police Combat Cross
The Police Combat Cross (solid green bar) is awarded for:
- Members who have successfully and intelligently performed an act of extraordinary heroism, while engaged in personal combat with an armed adversary under circumstances of imminent personal hazard to life.
Read more about this topic: Medals Of The New York City Police Department
Famous quotes containing the words police, combat and/or cross:
“I guess a career in the police didn’t really prepare you for this, did it?”
—Bob Hunt (b. 1951)
“In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)