Greenwich Lions Club Awards Honor To Greenwich Police Officer

GREENWICH, CT — Greenwich Police Officer Ryan Beattie, a six-year veteran of the Force, received the Dr. John A. Clark Memorial Award from the Greenwich Lions Club for outstanding service to the department and community. Beattie was presented with the award Thursday during a luncheon at the Innis Arden Club.

Officer Beattie has exuded may admirable traits, and lives up to all of the department's core values: Courage, Diligence, Respect, Fairness, Service, according to officials. Since 1948 the Lions Club has recognized the performance and achievements of Greenwich Police Officers for their contributions in the line of duty.

"As a patrol officer, he has been a proactive Law enforcement officer who exercises excellent independent judgment and superior investigative skills," officials stated. "With a can-do attitude, he is a go to officer that can handle the most difficult cases and is frequently called upon to assist our Narcotics officers."

From the department's announcement:

A sampling of the cases that exemplified why Officer Ryan Beattie was selected as the John A. Clark Awardee begin in February of 2018.

Officer Beattie and Officer Justin Rivera were working a special detail on the east side of town when they made a keen observation. That observation and they subsequent arrest would result in a sizeable seizure of Cocaine, marijuana, and opioid pharmaceuticals.

Similar instances of proactive success resulted in Officer Beattie being hand selected, along with Officer's Christion Rosario and Officer Mike Hall, for another special detail, the Organized Retail Crime Activity Team.

With an increase in the central business district of crimes perpetrated by professional criminals committing crimes such as forgery, identity theft, fraudulent financial transactions, larceny, and others.

Officer Beattie and the Organized Retail Crime Activity team, working primarily in plainclothes in the central area, were able to initiate discreet surveillance of the suspicious persons and take appropriate action once reasonable suspicion of a crime was established.

The results of the ORCA Team efforts were spectacular: more than 32 career criminals were arrested by the Team on a total of 143 different charges, 85 of which are felonies.

Thursday's luncheon was attended by Officer Beattie’s brother, Greenwich Police Officer Sean Beattie, in addition to other family members, friends and fellow officers.