Reno Police Chief Honored

Press Release:

The following award goes to Police Chief Jeremy Massey of the Reno Police Department for creating the Reno Police Department Special Heroes Unit to support local children in his community fighting their heroic battles. 

For years, Reno Police Chief Jeremy Massey has gone above and beyond for children in his community. In 2018, Chief Massey named a little girl who was terminally ill as an Honorary Sergeant of the Reno Police Department in support of the battle she was fighting.

In 2022, Chief Massey created the Reno Police Department Special Heroes Unit to support local children fighting life-threatening medical conditions. In the Reno Police Department Special Heroes Unit, the children are named Honorary Reno Police Department Sergeant and even given a Special Heroes Unit shirt and badge. Some of the children he has honored in the Special Heroes Unit include six-year-old Alex Stephens, who had an aggressive brain cancer, and four-year-old Tobias Gonzalez, who had Leukemia. A local print shop even designed “Sergeant Alex Stephens” T-shirts to help raise money for Sergeant Alex and his family.

In one instance, Chief Massey drove to a children’s hospital in Dallas to bring a great heroes unit shirt and badge to a terminally ill child undergoing chemotherapy. The Reno Special Heroes Unit, created by Chief Massey, is an incredible show of support for these local families. It shows these Honorary Reno Sergeants that they are warriors and not alone in their fight. 

For his tremendous community engagement, compassion, and support he provides his community through the Reno Special Heroes Unit, the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement is honored to present this 2023 State of Texas Law Enforcement Achievement Award for Public Service to Chief Police Jeremy Massey of the Reno Police Department.

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