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DPD officer receives Carnegie Medal

A Delta police officer's heroic act has been recognized with an international award. A/Staff. Sgt.
John Jasmins
A/Staff. Sgt. John Jasmins, who is in charge of the Community Support Section of the Delta Police, is one of 17 recipients announced recently by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.

A Delta police officer's heroic act has been recognized with an international award.

A/Staff. Sgt. John Jasmins, who is in charge of the Community Support Section of the Delta Police, is one of 17 recipients announced recently by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.

The Commission awards the Carnegie Medal to individuals from throughout the United States and Canada who risk their lives to an extraordinary degree saving or attempting to save the lives of others. The Carnegie Medal is considered the highest civilian honor in the U.S.

“John is truly a humble man, and I know he’s having mixed emotions upon hearing he’s received further recognition for his actions in saving the life of a woman in February 2019,” says DPD Chief Neil Dubord. “However, he is one of only three Canadians to receive this honour this year, and I want our community to know how proud we all are of him.”

On Feb. 20, 2019, Jasmins, who was off-duty, witnessed an altercation between a man and a woman at North Delta’s Immaculate Conception elementary school and intervened. Both he and a female victim received serious stab wounds. Uniformed police arrived to the scene quickly, and a suspect was apprehended minutes later.

The man responsible was recently handed a 10-year jail sentence.

A total of 10,185 Carnegie Medals have been awarded since the Pittsburgh-based Fund’s inception in 1904.

Commission Chair Mark Laskow said each of the awardees or their survivors will also receive a financial grant. Throughout the 116 years since the Fund was established by industrialist philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, more than $42 million has been given in one-time grants, scholarship aid, death benefits, and continuing assistance.