{"id":130880,"date":"2026-02-12T03:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130880\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:28:20","slug":"nyc-port-authority-officer-victoria-yong-named-first-cop-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130880\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Port Authority officer Victoria Yong named first Cop of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A soon-to-be new mom who rushed into action to save the life of a teen boy during a terrifying domestic violence attack <\/a>was honored last week as the first-ever female Port Authority PBA Cop of the Year.<\/p>\n

Police Officer Victoria Yong was celebrated with the award at the union\u2019s annual dinner \u2014 just days before she\u2019s expecting to welcome her very own little girl.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to receive this award, and I didn\u2019t realize I was the first woman to get it, which makes it an even greater honor,\u201d Yong told The Post Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Police Officer Victoria Yong became the first female officer to be named the Port Authority PBA Cop of the Year. facebook\/PAPD911<\/p>\n

Yong was four months pregnant and off-duty back in October when she witnessed a blood-soaked and screaming 17-year-old boy run out of his Flushing home.<\/p>\n

His drunk brother-in-law had allegedly pulled a knife on him after killing his 50-year-old mother. The man had also slit his own wrists and was trying to set the house on fire, officers said.<\/p>\n

Despite her condition \u2014 and knowing that the unstable suspect was still on the scene \u2014 Yong jumped into action to save the teen\u2019s life by calling 911 and helping him to an ambulance. She also helped apprehend the alleged killer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a reflex reaction: someone was injured, and my experience and training kicked in, and I reacted,\u201d the young mother said humbly.<\/p>\n

Victoria Yong in her Port Authority graduation picture.
\n Courtesy of Victoria Yong<\/p>\n

Yong has been a Port Authority cop for three years, and served nearly five years before that with the NYPD.<\/p>\n

Being an officer has been a dream of hers since she was a little girl, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember watching all the cop shows and I said, \u2018I want to be the cop!\u2019 Criminal Minds was my favorite,\u201d Yong said.<\/p>\n

Yong was off-duty and four months pregnant when she rushed into action during an ongoing domestic violence incident in Flushing. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n

The man allegedly killed his mother-in-law and knifed his brother-in-law before slitting his own wrists, cops said. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n

She was honored for her selflessness and bravery at the annual Port Authority PBA Cop of the Year Dinner on Friday, solidifying her place as the first female officer to ever receive the award.<\/p>\n

According to the union, one United States Army Special Forces Green Beret who heard of Yong\u2019s actions called it \u2018Medal of Honor stuff!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur off-duty officer responded to someone\u2019s urgent need for help. She did so without hesitation, not being certain of what she was walking into, as police officers typically do. Unbeknownst to her, she was happening upon a tragic scene in which an armed perpetrator was still present,\u201d Port Authority PBA President Frank Conti said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am extremely proud of her actions, and I am also grateful that she was not injured, or worse, in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yong is now looking forward to motherhood and is due any day. She is expecting a little girl, but has not yet settled on a name. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A soon-to-be new mom who rushed into action to save the life of a teen boy during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[648,57,9,197,56,63,65,64,19970,12621,122,58],"class_list":["post-130880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-flushing","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-life","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-police-benevolent-association","tag-port-authority","tag-queens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}