No complaints on Gaithersburg's officer of the year

No one likes getting a ticket, and certainly no one likes to be arrested. Yet despite having an impressive number of both arrests and citations last year — amounting to 1,000 “citizen contacts” as they call it in the field — Gaithersburg Police Officer Shane Eastman received no complaints at all.

Coupled with the nominations of five of his supervisors, this feat sealed the deal for Eastman, as Chief Mark S. Sroka announced him as the department’s 2011 Officer of the Year.