A police officer who met a citizen’s hostile glare with conversation and friendliness. A school resource officer who has done mission work in South Africa. A paramedic dedicated to helping people “at the worst moment of their lives.”

These were among the people honored Tuesday when the Salisbury Rotary Club gave out its annual public safety awards. Recipients included:

• Det. Alfredo Bizzio, Salisbury Police Department’s Young Officer of the Year. Born in Puerto Rico, Bizzio moved to North Carolina in 2011. He started with the Police Department as a dispatcher, got his law enforcement training and became a sworn officer assigned to a patrol team. Thanks to what Chief Rory Collins called Bizzio’s ability to talk to people and exceptional investigative skills, he is now a detective.

• Cpl. Shane Hill, SPD Veteran Officer of the Year. Hill joined the Salisbury force after 11 years with Kernersville Police and proved to be an aggressive officer who wants to be where the action is, Collins said. Working on the night shift, he was promoted from master police officer to corporal over a street crimes unit and also acts as a field trainer. While patrolling the West End with a young officer one night, the two noticed a man giving them a hard stare. Hill told the young officer to turn the car around; they got out and introduced themselves to the man and his companion. Collins said they had a good conversation, shot a few hoops and parted on good terms.

• Halsey Hoosier, Salisbury Fire Department Rookie of the Year. Nicknamed “Admiral” by his co-workers, Hoosier is a highly capable go-getter who joined the department in 2012, said Fire Chief Bob Parnell. He graduated from East Davidson High School and works with his home volunteer fire department. Hoosier recently completed training on confined-space rescue aboard the USS North Carolina in Wilmington and also has training in deep water diving rescue.

• Capt. Rodney Misenheimer, SFD Veteran of the Year. A 29-year veteran of the department, Miseheimer has served at all of the city’s fire stations and is leading the renovation of Station No. 5 at 1403 S. Main St. The city had been using the building for other purposes since 1980. Parnell called the station property “sacred ground,” since the Firefighters Memorial is nearby, and commended Misenheimer’s work to update the building without ruining its historic value. “Rodney’s pride has been contagious,” Parnell said. Also the staff officer working on computers, Misenheimer oversees the radio and communications system, the chief said.

• Deputy Ryan Barkley, Rowan County Sheriff’s Office Rookie of the Year. A 2009 graduate of East Rowan High School, Barkley started as a member of the Sheriff’s Office Explorer Post in 2005 when he was 13 years old, said Sheriff Kevin Auten. He worked as a dispatcher, got his law enforcement training and started in the Detention Center and is now a patrol deputy. Auten said it can be hard to get officers to follow up on cases, but not Barkley. In 2014, he cleared 56 percent of his 144 cases, and so far this year 64 of this 80 cases have been cleared by arrests, Auten said.

• Master Deputy Scott Flowers, Sheriff’s Office Veteran of the Year. Now resource officer at East Rowan High School, Flowers started at the Sheriff’s Office in the Detention Center and went on to work on patrol and as a bailiff. He had left the Sheriff’s Office twice to go on two-year mission trips to South Africa, evidence that he is a “faith-based, spiritual person,” Auten said. When Flowers left his job as resource officer at Southeast Middle School to take one of those trips, people became emotional at his farewell. Flowers is successful as a resource officer, Auten said “not that Gestapo” who was just at the school to make arrests; he made friends with students. But he also could make arrests when necessary.

• Paramedic Dustin M. Earnhardt, Rowan Emergency Medical Services Rookie of the Year. From an early age, Earnhardt knew he wanted a career helping people, said Frank Thomason, chief of the county’s Emergency Services. But it was only near the end of his EMT training, as an intern with the Rescue Squad, that he realized he wanted to help people “at the worst moment of their lives” by working in Emergency Medical Services. Earnhardt joined the EMS in 2014 and has continued to learn and grow, the chief said.

• Paramedic Battallion Chief William A. Hamrick, EMS Veteran of the Year. Hamrick’s long, distinguished career in public safety started with a fire department Explorer’s Post in Burlington and has included an entire career with Rowan’s EMS, formed in 1984. As the EMS grew, so did Hamrick’s skills, Thomason said. He’s been a firefighter, medical response coordinator, instructor and more. In 2013, Hamrick compiled a history of the EMS for its 30th anniversary. He plans to retire later this year.

• Trooper Robert Paul Charubini, Highway Patrol Rookie of the Year. Originally from Boston, Charubini served two tours of duty in Iraq as a U.S. Marine and re-enlisted in 2012 in the Marine Corps Reserves. He received an associate degree in criminal justice with honors in 2010 and went through the patrol’s basic school in 2014. Sgt. R.W. Whitley said he had ridden with Charubini and saw that he had a heart for the job, was highly motivated and always willing to help people in need. And, Whitley added, “when he puts his mind to it, the bad guys don’t have a chance.”

• Trooper Christopher J. Doty, Highway Patrol Veteran of the Year. A 1995 graduate of East Rowan High School, Doty  went to Central Piedmont Community College for an associate degree in criminal justice and law enforcement training. He was a member of the Granite Quarry Police Department for six years before joining the Highway Patrol. A field trainer, he has trained seven troopers. His is a dedicated family man, Whitley said, and gives time to the community as a youth baseball coach — teaching young players not just how to play baseball, but also how to treat people and show good manners.