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September 21, 2007

Environmental police officer will receive citation

Governor Carcieri will give a citation today to Richard Browning, an off-duty environmental police officer who went onto a boat to help a semi-conscious victim and alert the Coast Guard.

Browning was on with friends on a sport fishing boat recently when they responded to a distress call from another boat while both boats were 130 miles offshore at night.

Browning went aboard the other boat in rough seas, began medical treatment and called the Coast Guard. He hoisted semi-conscious victim Dave Preble onto his boat, from which Browning was able to help Coast Guard personnel put Preble up into a helicopter, the governor's office says.

Browning, of Saunderstown, had served as a Coast Guard boatswain’s mate third class at Station Castle Hill in Newport before graduating from University of Rhode Island. The Department of Environmental Management hired him in April 2004.

Browning, Preble, and W. Michael Sullivan, the state Department of Environmental Managemenrt director, will attend the State House ceremony at 12:30 p.m. in the state room.

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 7:03 AM | Permalink

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