DEC 2022. Blues Vol 38 No. 12
FEATURES 56 COVER STORY IACP OFFICER OF THE YEAR, OFFICER THADEU HOLLOWAY 68 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE DEPARTMENTS 6 PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS 8 EDITOR’S THOUGHTS 12 GUEST COMMENTARY - BILL KING 14 NEWS AROUND THE US 46 HEALTH & AWARENESS 52 COP CAR NEWS 84 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 86 REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN HEROES 92 WAR STORIES 98 AFTERMATH 102 OPEN ROAD 108 CLASSIFIEDS 110 HEALING OUR HEROES 112 DARYL’S DELIBERATIONS 114 LIGHT BULB AWARD 116 RUNNING 4 HEROES 118 BLUE MENTAL HEALTH WITH DR. TINA JAECKLE 120 OFF DUTY WITH RUSTY BARRON 124 ADS BACK IN THE DAY 124 PARTING SHOTS 130 BUYERS GUIDE 150 NOW HIRING - L.E.O. POSITIONS OPEN IN TEXAS 202 BACK PAGE
FEATURES
56 COVER STORY
IACP OFFICER OF THE YEAR,
OFFICER THADEU HOLLOWAY
68 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
DEPARTMENTS
6 PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS
8 EDITOR’S THOUGHTS
12 GUEST COMMENTARY - BILL KING
14 NEWS AROUND THE US
46 HEALTH & AWARENESS
52 COP CAR NEWS
84 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
86 REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN HEROES
92 WAR STORIES
98 AFTERMATH
102 OPEN ROAD
108 CLASSIFIEDS
110 HEALING OUR HEROES
112 DARYL’S DELIBERATIONS
114 LIGHT BULB AWARD
116 RUNNING 4 HEROES
118 BLUE MENTAL HEALTH WITH DR. TINA JAECKLE
120 OFF DUTY WITH RUSTY BARRON
124 ADS BACK IN THE DAY
124 PARTING SHOTS
130 BUYERS GUIDE
150 NOW HIRING - L.E.O. POSITIONS OPEN IN TEXAS
202 BACK PAGE
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Family Matters<br />
His wife Amanda Holloway<br />
was home with their two girls<br />
when she got the phone call.<br />
When she turned on Main Street<br />
and saw the street covered with<br />
police cars, she knew that wasn’t<br />
a good sign. All she could do<br />
was wait while doctors worked<br />
on his injuries.<br />
“The bullet hit right here on<br />
my temple, and traveled underneath<br />
the skin and then came out<br />
here,” Thadeu recalled. Recovery<br />
has been a long, difficult, and<br />
ongoing process. Holloway said<br />
he is still dealing with a traumatic<br />
brain injury, memory issues<br />
and headaches. He also has<br />
trouble finding words, has ringing<br />
in his ear and some hearing,<br />
as well as vision loss.<br />
Law enforcement has always<br />
been a part of Thadeu and<br />
Amanda’s life. She started as a<br />
dispatcher 19 years ago and now<br />
works in the administrative office<br />
at the Huber Heights (Ohio)<br />
Police Division. Thadeu joined<br />
the National Guard in high school<br />
and got deployed three times.<br />
He spent nine years as a Dayton<br />
police officer. “In January 2022 I<br />
actually fought with my doctors<br />
to at least go back to work, they<br />
wanted me stay off work a little<br />
longer and I couldn’t stay off,” he<br />
said. He’s now on light duty, 20<br />
hours a week.<br />
In the meantime, his memories<br />
have brought him back to the<br />
night of the shooting every time<br />
an officer in our area has been<br />
shot on the job. “Definitely brings<br />
back the night of my shooting,<br />
makes me feel guilty that I survived<br />
and some of them didn’t,<br />
and it just makes me realize how<br />
dangerous being a police officer<br />
is,” Thadeu said. For now, he is<br />
focusing on his family. “My goal<br />
is to just be able to take care of<br />
my family, whatever that entails,<br />
you know whether it’s going<br />
back out to the streets or going<br />
a different avenue, I just want to<br />
make sure I’m still here, still able<br />
to take care of my family for you<br />
know a long time,” he said.<br />
Help on the<br />
Homefront<br />
Although Officer Holloway<br />
has now returned to light duty,<br />
the last few months have been<br />
a challenging period of time in<br />
which the main focus continues<br />
to be primarily on recovery. The<br />
inability to work clearly impacted<br />
everyday needs. One of those<br />
needs included a new roof which<br />
was out of question, until now.<br />
Thanks to DryTech Exteriors<br />
‘Roofs For Troops’ program, construction<br />
on his new roof went<br />
from start to finish in one day.<br />
“I’m not a veteran because I<br />
want accolades, I didn’t become<br />
a cop to get accolades,” Officer<br />
Holloway said. “Unfortunately,<br />
what happened with me as a<br />
police officer was a tragic incident…The<br />
fact that there’s a<br />
company out there willing to<br />
show their appreciation for that<br />
is awesome.” Officer Holloway<br />
was selected out of 100 nominees.<br />
“So many heroes in our community,<br />
you just don’t realize<br />
the stories that they carry of<br />
their service and sacrifice to our<br />
country,” Allie Hosler, co-owner<br />
of DryTech Exteriors, said. “To<br />
also be a police officer, who<br />
was shot in the head in the line<br />
of duty, we owe him so much.<br />
Putting a roof over his head is<br />
the least we can do.” Brad Hosler,<br />
who co-owns the company<br />
alongside his wife, said that<br />
Officer Holloway’s new roof is<br />
expected to last thirty years.<br />
Awards and<br />
Recognition<br />
Just a few days after his release<br />
from the hospital, Officer<br />
Thadeu Holloway attended the<br />
Annual Montgomery County<br />
(Ohio) Law Enforcement Memorial<br />
Ceremony which honors the<br />
40 officers county-wide who<br />
have died in the line of duty.<br />
Along with honoring those officer’s<br />
sacrifices, those in attendance<br />
also took time to speak<br />
with Holloway. “Haven’t we just<br />
witnessed in these last days the<br />
transformation of tragedy into<br />
triumph?” Keynote speaker Dr.<br />
Col. Kathy Platoni asked during<br />
her speech. “This, Officer Holloway,<br />
is what valor, courage and<br />
true heroism look like.” In addition,<br />
the Montgomery County Association<br />
of Police Chiefs named<br />
him officer of the year.<br />
The officers and those in attendance<br />
gave Holloway a round<br />
of applause and many took time<br />
after the ceremony to greet him<br />
and wish him well. “The officer<br />
fell to the ground and immediately<br />
re-turned fire with five<br />
rounds, striking the suspect multiple<br />
times. Despite his injuries,<br />
the officer was able to effectively<br />
request assistance for himself<br />
and the wounded suspect,” Interim<br />
Director and Chief Matt Carper<br />
said. “The officer also provided<br />
for the safety of witnesses<br />
and bystanders by directing them<br />
to a place of safety.” Carper said<br />
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