May 2025 Winners: Officers John Romano and Shawn Hahn, VASTT Project Manager Courtney Albiker and VASTT Field Technician Brandon Benson
On behalf of our Command Staff, we are pleased to announce that Officers John Romano and Shawn Hahn, VASTT Project Manager Courtney Albiker and VASTT Field Tech Brandon Benson have been named May 2025 Employees of the Month.
Officers Romano and Hahn were assigned a proactive, plain clothes assignment to prevent and decrease both bike/scooter thefts and package thefts from South Campus residences on April 30th. Hahn and Romano spotted a suspect matching a description of a suspect identified by the Investigations team as being involved in package thefts. Using sound surveillance methods, the pair were able to follow the suspect undetected until the suspect was seen retrieving a package, securing it and ultimately opening and retaining the package. The officers were able to stealthily approach the suspect and take him into custody. The suspect was in fact the subject of an Attempt to Identify bulletin published on April 28th and was subsequently charged.
In May, our department faced a challenge: critical video footage from the Watchguard in-car video system—footage that could have served as key evidence in a serious case—was missing. The issue stemmed from multiple unsupported elements, including an Active Directory account, in-car hardware, and server-side software. Brandon and Courtney working closely with ITS and Motorola was able to recover the video and restore service. Their efforts required not only technical expertise but also an extraordinary amount of networking, persistence, and diplomacy. At any point, any one of the partners involved could have simply said, “We don’t support this”—and walked away. But thanks to Brandon and Courtney’s determination and collaboration, they rallied the necessary support and achieved what many might have thought impossible. Their work directly impacted our ability to preserve critical evidence and maintain operational integrity.
Congratulations to all of our May 2025 Employees of the Month.
Past Winners
- January: Officer George Wazen
- February: RCSO Donald Plantz and ECC Dispatchers Josh Lewis and Richard Curran
- March: Officer Gregory Scheurer
- April: Detective Jessica Zaccari, Crime Threat and Risk Analyst Kaitlyn Gibbons and Officer Delana Thomas
- May: Officers John Romano and Shawn Hahn, VASTT Project Manager Courtney Albiker and VASTT Field Technician Brandon Benson
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- November:
- December: ECC Disptatcher Bailey Pattillo and Officer Thomas Bingham