This new dad was simply named the Midtown South Precinct’s “Officer of the Yr” — after sticking a drug- and gun-toting maniac behind bars.
NYPD Officer Thomas Bucholz, 30, was entrusted with the celebrated award on the Protected Metropolis Protected Streets Luncheon on the Manhattan Penthouse Thursday.
Dozens of colleagues and family members — together with Bucholz’s two-month-old daughter — cheered on as he accepted the title, which he humbly devoted to his fellow officers.
“It’s a really huge honor to me. It’s a really huge precinct and I’m not the one one who does great work,” Bucholz, who has been one in all New York’s Most interesting for almost a decade, informed The Submit forward of the ceremony.
“Everybody there goes above and past for the group. We’re all there to do higher for the individuals of Midtown, and the enterprise house owners and the vacationers as effectively.”
He was one in all a number of Manhattan cops from varied precincts to obtain the award. The NYPD’s Jennifer Paolino, Christian Orellana and Michael Dejesus have been additionally honored as “Officers of the Yr” for the sixth,tenth and thirteenth precincts, respectively.
Bucholz clinched the award for Midtown South after he chased down and cuffed a felony who fled the scene of a severe crash in September.
The perp had a horde of medicine and weapons stuffed within the automotive, together with a defaced assault rifle and a loaded handgun.
Bucholz, who dreamed of being an NYPD officer since he was a Lengthy Island scholar, has served solely in Midtown South all through his nine-year tenure.
Since he and his spouse, Meghan, welcomed their child, Scarlett, Bucholz has set his eyes on larger goals.
“I want to attempt to be a detective someday,” he mentioned.
