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Contact: Kathy
Johnson
UK
Police Officer Robert Pearl
"Officer
Pearl has consistently represented our department
in an admirable fashion. He is very deserving of
this award, and we are pleased that the Human Rights
Commission chose to recognize him for his dedicated
and continuous service to all members of the community."
-- Fred
Otto,
chief
University of Kentucky Police
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LEXINGTON,
Ky. (March 15, 2004) -- The
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission
has honored University of Kentucky Police Officer
Robert Pearl with the Police Community Relations
Award. The award was presented to Pearl and Thomas
Coon, an officer in the Lexington-Fayette Urban
County Division of Police, during the commission’s
Civil Rights Luncheon.
Since
joining the UK Police Department in December 2002,
Pearl has served in the Bureau of Patrol and on
the Executive Protection Team, which is responsible
for protection of dignitaries who visit UK’s
campus. Pearl is actively involved in the university’s
Adopt-A-Cop program, in which he is assigned to
a particular residence hall and works with those
residents on campus safety issues. He also volunteers
his time visiting sick children at the UK Children’s
Hospital.
"Officer
Pearl has consistently represented our department
in an admirable fashion. He is very deserving of
this award, and we are pleased that the Human Rights
Commission chose to recognize him for his dedicated
and continuous service to all members of the community," said
Fred Otto, chief of UK Police.
This
is the third year the commission has presented
the Police Community Relations Award, and Pearl
is the second UK Police officer to be honored.
“We
instituted this award to recognize and promote
good relations between law enforcement and the
community,” said William D. Wharton, executive
director of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County
Human Rights Commission. “Quoting from one
of Pearl’s nomination forms, ‘he is
dedicated to his job and the people he works with,
he has compassion and purpose. Officer Pearl …..
goes the extra mile.’”
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