The Bulletin Notes.

Law enforcement officers are challenged daily in the performance of their duties; they face each challenge freely and unselfishly while answering the call to duty. In certain instances, their actions warrant special attention from their respective departments. The Bulletin also wants to recognize those situations that transcend the normal rigors of the law enforcement profession.

While searching for prison espcapees early one morning, Officers Eric Wilkins and Eric Williams of the Fort Smith, Arkansas, Police Department noticed smoke coming from a residential area. They rushed to the scene and found a residence engulfed in flames. The officers quickly alerted the occupants, who ran from the house. Within seconds, the officers learned that a 6-year-old boy still was inside. They were told the location of the child's room, but smoke and flames prevented them from going inside the home. Instead, the officers removed an air conditioning unit from a window, reached inside, and safely removed the disoriented child. The quick actions of Officers Wilkins and Williams saved the child's life.

Officers Pablo Reyna and Wary Hoegner of the Moline, Illinois, Police Department were dispatched to a one-vehicle crash in which the driver had smashed his car into the side of a gas station. When Officer Reyna arrived at the scene, he observed that the driver in the vehicle was not breathing. Officer Reyna removed the driver from the vehicle and placed him on the ground. Officer Hoegner and Officer Reyna immediately began CPR, and the victim soon began to breath on his own. It was later learned that the victim had suffered a heart attack just prior to the crash. Moline Fire Department paramedics advised that without Officers Hoegner's and Officer Reyna's decisive actions, the outcome of the heart attack and crash would have been fatal.

Nominations for the Bulletin Notes should be based on either the rescue of one or more citizens or arrest(s) made at unusual risk to an officer's safety. Submissions should include a short write-up (maximum of 250 words), a separate photograph of each nominee, and a letter from the department's ranking officer endorsing the nomination. Submissions should be sent to the Editor, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, FBI Academy, Madison Building, Room 209, Quantico, VA 22135.