They put their lives on the line every day to keep the public safe and on Friday night, they were honored for their bravery.

WDRB talked to some of the award recipients at the tenth annual Louisville Metro Police Department Awards Banquet.

On February 24th, 2012, Officer Lamont Washington responded to a home invasion and was shot twice while in a foot pursuit with the suspects.

The mayor of Memphis said billboards put up by the Memphis Police Association are hurting the city's image and calls the message, "selfish."

The police union billboards feature the warning, "DANGER: Enter at your own risk; This city does not support public safety," MyFoxMemphis.com reported.

Mike Williams, the president of the MPA, said the billboards are meant to target city leaders and are about protecting union's jobs and benefits.

Kentucky students must be given Miranda warnings - that they have right to remain silent and to have a lawyer - if they are interviewed by principals with a school officer present, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

In a 4-3 opinion that dissenting justices warned could endanger school safety, the court held that a statement from a Nelson County student who admitted giving two pills to another student must be suppressed because he was not read his rights first.

The Louisville Metro Police Department says it is reviewing an incident in which a police officer used a stun gun to force a suspect to spit out drugs allegedly hidden in his mouth.

Police said Carlos D. Beauchamp was suspected of hiding a crack rock in his mouth after being pulled over for not wearing a seatbelt about 3 p.m. Tuesday in the 1600 block of Oak Street.

Police in riot gear cleared Cardinal Boulevard early Tuesday morning as students' celebration of the University of Louisville's national basketball championship escalated with fireworks, body surfing and nudity.

John Drees, a U of L spokesperson said the crowd was dispersed because a Louisville Fire Department arson officer was attacked while trying to break up an "incident." Drees confirmed that police used pepper spray and tear gas to help disperse the crowd.

A Louisville Metro Police officer and a woman he was out with while off duty in July both told a grand jury last month they were attacked by a group of men in a parking lot when the officer was punched in the face while another man repeatedly jumped on his vehicle and smashed in the windshield.

Officer Joseph Pence and Veronica Zeigler both testified that Pence followed a group of men to an apartment complex - after one of the men threw something at his blue Mazda and cursed at a stoplight on Bardstown Road in the Hikes Point area - where the men surrounded the car and punched the officer through his window.

Police were searching for answers Sunday after three men were found shot to death outside a southern Louisville apartment complex in one of Louisville's deadliest shootings this year.

Called to the 3500 Block of Georgetown Place off Berry Boulevard shortly before 3 p.m., police found three black males who appeared to be in their 20s dead in the parking lot - two inside a Ford Explorer and another on the ground just outside the vehicle.

This week marks a painful anniversary for the Kentuckiana law enforcement community.

Officer Peter Grignon was a Louisville Metro Police officer and was killed in the line of duty eight years ago.

This week, his family, police and an organization that supports fallen emergency responders, will honor his sacrifice.

"He may no longer be physically with us, but his memory and his legacy are things that we want this community to remember," father of Officer Grignon, Don Grignon said.