All stones were left unturned in the story of the Cleveland kidnapping victims, Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight. As the three girls now choose to move on with their lives and stay in peace, it is interesting to know that the police officers behind the rescue, just like the three women, needed time to recover from the overwhelming experience.

The City Police Department has released a 12 minute video featuring the interviews of police officers who rescued Amanda Berry, Gina de Jesus and Michelle Knight, The Plain Dealer reports.

The video shows police officers Anthony Espada, Barbara Johnson and Michael Tracy sharing their experiences of how they felt during the actual rescue.

Espada, Johnson and Tracy along with officers Michael Simson, John Graves and Matt Cavanaugh were the officers who promptly responded to the 911 call made by Amanda during that fateful day.

The officers were given instruction not to give out specific details of their rescue. Hence, the police gave out their most heart-felt recollection of that day.

In a separate press conference at the Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association headquarters, four of these officers talk emotionally about their chilling experience upon seeing Amanda Beyer alive and led the other victims to freedom.

Johnson recalls how she prayed that the call to be real and not a hoax. Upon seeing Amanda Berry in flesh, she was overwhelmed by strong emotions.

Johnson says that Michelle hugged her first. "... then clutched me and said don't let me go. You can't really describe how I felt. It rips the heart out of my chest."

Johnson shares that she spent a good six hours with the three women at the Metrohealth Medical Center after the rescue. She said that "no training could ever prepare a police officer for the assignment.

Until this very day, her tears still fall whenever she reminisce the rescue. "You try and forget about this, but you can't ever forget something like this."

Simon, a police officer in service of 27 years, thinks of his experience of the rescue as something incomparable.

He shares that as soon as he heard there were people in the house, he ran up the door and was frustrated when he discovered it was locked from the inside. "So I grabbed the hand rail by the stairs to use as prying tool and the officers kicked the door in. Once inside, I felt evil in the house."

Espada bravely recalls that all of them had no fear that owner, Ariel castro, might be inside and possibly ready to attack.

He recalls how he was involved during the time the girls where just missing. "We've all seen the flyers for Amanda and Gina, but I was experiencing both disbelief and excitement when I saw Amanda in the window."

"Our first thought was to safely get inside, make sure the girls were ok and then get them out. That day I also felt excitement and happiness for the girls and for their families."

Espada admits to being so emotionally overwhelmed that he needed to breath hard in order to conduct a successful police dispatch that there kidnap victims were found and alive.

Espada recalls, "I've broke down crying a few times on the scene, and in private since then. Those three girls are my heroes, after what went through in that house all those years."

CPPA president Jeff Follmer said that the testimonies of these policemen showed that Cleveland has good officers in the force, and they did their jobs with pride. "But still, the true heroes are the three women and the child who were held captive in that home at 2207 Seymour Avenue for 10 to 12 years."

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