Faced with the task of helping Spicer scale the muddy slope, Roig took a rope from Spicer's pack and tied it around Spicer's waist, and started crawling on his stomach up the hill. Every 20 feet, Roig tied his end of the rope to a tree and pulled Spicer up to him.

Eventually, he and Spicer reached the trail, where he led the man to a waiting ambulance.

For his quick thinking and bravery, Roig was awarded the Honolulu Police Department's Civilian Medal of Valor, the highest honor given to a civilian. Roig was one of several civilians, police officers and other law-enforcement officials recognized at a ceremony yesterday at the police department's Alapa'i Street headquarters.

"He alone, out of all those people, climbed down to get me," said Spicer, a practicing clinical psychologist. "He's a good man."

Bienvenido Villaflor Jr.

Villaflor pulled his gun, yelled to get the gunman's attention, and shot him in the shoulder when the man spun to face him.

The wounded man ran away but was captured by other officers a few blocks away.

Villaflor said that he wasn't rattled or worried, and that the scenario played out just as it did during his training at the police academy.

"We just aim to stop the threat," he said.

Villaflor, son of a boxer, was given the Warrior Bronze Medal of Valor, an award given to only 89 other officers in the history of the department.