The vicious winter storm, the faint cries for help, the lifeless bodies.

Constables Dan Jordens and Tony Moores still vividly remember everything about that November 2009 night when they entered the residence of James Bing Jun Louie.

The two were first on the scene, but it was already too late to save the lives of 13-year-old Jason and his sister Jane.

The officers proceeded through the house until they found Louie in the bathroom with a rope wrapped tightly around the neck of his wife, Ying Tang.

Jordens admits he nearly shot Louie, but Moores intervened and took control of the perpetrator, freeing Tang.

“He promised he would never do this, he promised he would never do this,” Jordens said, reciting the cries of Tang, as she fled the bathroom.

For their life-saving efforts, Jordens and Moores, along with two officers who assisted on that fateful night, were among the honourees at the police Chief Rick Hanson’s awards gala.

“In any job – I don’t care what line of work you’re in – there’s the regular job and then there’s the time (you’re) put in a situation where there’s way more expected of you…. There’s so many examples of that tonight,” Hanson said of the award recipients.