Citizens meet local officer at Coffee with a Cop event

By Jon Wilson, KEVN
Original article HERE

Residents had the chance to have coffee with a cop Thursday.

The national initiative started back in 2011, and the Rapid City Police Department puts these events on to introduce officers to the area they patrol. Patrol Lt. John Olson says this is a great way to meet the people he serves.

Rapid City Police Department Patrol Lt. John Olson says, “We thought that it would be a really great idea for each one of us who have moved to a new area of town, a new sector to go out and meet the people that we actually serve so that the public has a face to face meeting and recognition and could know a point of contact to get a hold of us for any issues, problems, or whatever they might have.”

Olson’s sector includes the south side of town, stretching to Catron Blvd.