This morning's Ithaca Journal has more detail on the honor Dryden Police Chief Margaret Ryan will be receiving from the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission:
Posted by simon at January 14, 2006 10:59 AM in Ithaca JournalRyan was nominated for HRC's Michael Padula Award for her work in broadening the Translator/Interpreter Program at Cornell University Public Service Center to include emergency services training.
It's a project whose benefits she understands in terms of street-level police work.
Ryan said she became more closely involved with TIP after seeking help from translators in the program to help in the investigation of a 2003 armed robbery at a Chinese restaurant in Dryden.