A 16-year-old Long Island teen, who lost his right leg and hip to a rare bone cancer, saw his dreams of becoming a police officer come true on Tuesday. Sean Patrick Dixon was sworn in to the Suffolk County Police Department as a \u201cDetective For a Day,\u201d Newsday reported.<\/a><\/p>\n
Dixon\u2019s passion for law enforcement stemmed from his close relationship with his grandfather, John Henderson, a former Nassau County police officer, and SCPD Det. Ed Troyano.<\/p>\n
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Dixon was teammates with Troyano\u2019s son on their school\u2019s lacrosse team, and the teen was often enthralled by details of the detective\u2019s day.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s always looked up to my dad, and Detective Troyano, in the work that they do,\u201d Kim Dixon, the teen\u2019s mother, told Newsday.<\/a><\/p>\n
Once Dixon\u2019s leg was amputated, Troyano reached out to his department with the idea to make him a detective for the day. The decision was confirmed in time for a special announcement made last month on Dixon\u2019s 16th<\/sup> birthday, according to the news outlet.<\/p>\n Dixon was sworn in at John L. Barry Police Headquarters in Yaphank in front of the Emergency Services and K-9 units, and spent the day with the department\u2019s Identification and Homicide units, Newsday reported.<\/a><\/p>\n DOG REVIVED WITH NARCAN AFTER GETTING INTO PAIN PILLS<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very thankful to be here today,\u201d Dixon told Newsday of the ceremony.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to this. Everyone\u2019s been so supportive and I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n Dixon, a rising junior at Patchogue-Medford High School, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma two years ago and is continuing treatments to combat growing tumors.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 16-year-old Long Island teen, who lost his right leg and hip to a rare bone cancer, saw his dreams of becoming a police officer come true on Tuesday. Sean Patrick Dixon was sworn in to the Suffolk County Police Department as a \u201cDetective For a Day,\u201d Newsday reported. Dixon\u2019s passion for law enforcement stemmed Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}