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Metro Police Officer Booke Lavin, center left, poses with her award for Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Officer of the Year during a CIT International awards luncheon at the South Point Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012. Lavin was honored with the award after calming a suicidal man and then following up to make sure the man received a variety of social services. With Lavin from left: Sam Cochran, co-chairman of the CIT board, CIT president Michael Woody, Metro Officer Jeremy Levy, 2006 CIT Officer of the Year, Sgt. Andy Suvada, of Streetsboro, Ohio, 2011 CIT Officer of the Year, and Michele Saunders, CIT International vice president.

Steve Marcus