Joe Walters, Officer of the Year
Technically, Joe Walters lost the "Officer of the Year" award to rival nominee Sonny Bonds, who had defeated the drug dealing and gambling business of the Death Angel. However, in some ways, Joe was a better officer than even Sonny was. Joe had written countless tickets for speeders, jaywalkers, red light-runners, and other traffic violators, something that Sonny was often behind on. He had safely gotten many drunk drivers off the streets, too, and before Sonny got involved with Bains and his hit-man, Jason Taselli, Joe had brought in to jail many independent drug dealers, as well as confiscating plenty of dope from kids and punks. He had even saved a woman once from being raped just in time, and was forced to gun down the would-be rapist.
Joe Walters may not have made as outstanding a bust as Sonny Bonds did with the Death Angel and his cohorts, but he did enough small good deeds to count as one of the best, too.
