This is National Police Week. We’ve heard all the negative news. A little more difficult to find in the media but far more common are the positive things, the good and caring things Police Officers do for us every day. Here are just a few incidents that popped up in past 24 hours. Take a moment this week to Thank a Police Officer. They will appreciate the recognition.

• New York – An off-duty Police Officer saved the life of a 15-year-old boy who was hit in the chest by a baseball. The officer ran from a nearby ball field with a defibrillator and shocked the unresponsive teen back to life.

• Tennessee – A Bluff City officer working an overnight shift employed his CPR skills to revive an unresponsive man in his 20’s at a local campground, after being alerted by the man’s friend that he was not breathing. The officer saved the man’s life.

• Colorado – After being called on a report of domestic violence and abandonment, a Denver Police Officer drove a destitute woman to a Greyhound bus station, and out of his own pocket and the goodness of his heart, bought her a $150 ticket back to her family in Texas.

• Arizona – Chandler AZ Police found a missing 22-year old developmentally challenged woman and reunited her safely with her family.

• California – A California Highway Patrol helicopter rescued a lost hiker from a remote Alpine County section of the Pacific Coast Trail.

• Arizona – And the feel-good story of the day… A Police Officer used his First Responder training to help deliver his own baby girl on the way to the birth center in Tuscon. Elena Lynn Jenkins and her mom Renae are doing just fine.

To public protection personnel who put their life on-line on a regular basis, these things may seem unremarkable. Not so for the folks who’s lives were saved or changed and not so for their wide circle of family and friends, all who have been impacted by the selfless actions of these brave and caring Police Officers.