Bajan cop promoted after brave action

New York's police chief has promoted a Barbados-born police officer hailed as a hero for stopping an armed robbery.



Fifty-year-old Feris Jones was promoted days after she calmly exchanged fire with an armed robber in a Brooklyn salon, shooting the gun out of his hand and firing the handle off the door.



He escaped but a man has since been arrested.



Jones, who is now a detective, played down her actions, saying it was just part of her personality to keep calm under pressure.



Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided over her promotion ceremony.