2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to a member of the national body in honor of the recipient’s dedication, efforts, service and visionary guidance in being a catalyst for the improvement of the national body which has brought about significant change in the quality of service to both its community and membership.
Bobby Ramos is a retired, 27-year veteran of the Stratford, CT Police Department, where he was the agency’s most decorated officer, being recognized with the prestigious “Knights of Chevalier” award.
Bobby gained somewhat of a record of notoriety within the community after a media press conference, in which he threatened a lawsuit versus his town for not hiring people of color and women for 10 years. This very public act reached from New York throughout Connecticut and caused Officer Ramos to experience death threats via phone calls to his home and racist phrases being scratched into his locker at work. A local newspaper even printed a letter to the editor from someone saying he should go back to Africa. There was even an assassination attempt on his life after he left work one day. But within a few short months the town began to hire people of color including their first black female and other women, many who are now Supervisors.
The first and only talk show host of color on air at Connecticut radio station WICC600AM, he has produced and hosted two 18 year highly rated mainstream radio shows, “Sports Talk in Black n' White” & “You're Show & Mine, Bobby Ramos-BottomLine!!!”, as well as the highly rated segment show that featured safety tips for seniors and everyone else in general “On the Beat with Officer Bobby Ramos”.
He is the recipient of the Connecticut Treasure Award, awards from the American Police Hall of Fame, the inaugural “Mission Accomplished Award” from the City of Stratford and is the only officer in the history of the Bridgeport, CT Police Department to receive a service award who was not a Bridgeport Police Officer.