Coos County holds first “Coffee with a Cop” event

By KCBY
Original article HERE

The Coos County Sheriff’s Office held its first “Coffee with a Cop” on Monday morning in Charleston, giving community members a chance to express their concerns and express their appreciations with the men and women in blue.

“This is for us to get out and meet with the citizens, and just have conversations over a cup of coffee,”said Captain Kelley Andrews of the Coos County Sheriff’s Office.

Those conversations varied from expressing neighborhood concerts to showing appreciation for Coos County deputies, and even asking what a person should do in a mass shooting situation like what happened in Las Vegas on Monday.

One person at the event took time off specifically to talk to one of the cops.

“My main intent was to specifically thank one deputy that came to my aid a few months ago,” said Brent Smith, a resident of Coos County. “Had he not been there, I wouldn’t be here.”

This was the first “Coffee with a Cop” event for the Coos County Sheriff’s Office, it certainly won’t be the last.

“I’d love to see next year if we would get together for the whole week, and have each day be another area of the county to hold one of these,” said Captain Andrews.

More than 80 cups of coffee were served, and the Sheriff’s office hopes to host another event before the end of the year.