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56 CHICAGO LODGE 7 ■ FEBRUARY 2017
CPMF honors four as January of cers of the month
n BY DAN CAMPANA
Four Chicago police officers earned Chicago Police Memorial Foundation “Officer of the Month” recognition in January for their role in a 2016 inci- dent with an armed offender.
Officers Juan Rivera, David Benitez, Alfonso Herrera and Eugenio “Tito” Tirado not only encountered the man at a park near 18th Street and Calumet Avenue in July, but, after Benitez was shot in the leg, his three colleagues tended to his wound and transported him to the hospital.
According to CPMF, which honored the four officers at a Jan. 10 ceremony, Rivera was on bike patrol when a con- cerned citizen pointed out a man in


































































































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