Drugs a main topic at ‘Coffee with Cops’

“Coffee with Cops” was a time for Edison High School students to ask questions and share their concerns with three members of the Erie County law enforcement community.

Getting to know cops over coffee in Kirkland

The coffee shop was packed full of law enforcement officers from Washington State Patrol, the U.S. Marshals Service of Washington, the Federal Air Marshal Service and of course, the Kirkland Police Department (KPD), for the latest Coffee With a Cop event.

Community members grab coffee with cops, bridging gap

“Over the years, law enforcement has kind of lost their constituency. We’ve lost touch with a lot of the public and things, and this is really important, that we get out in a non-enforcement capacity, get to meet the public, we get to answer some of their questions and interact with them on more of a personal level,” said Captain of the Alaska State Troopers “D” Detachment Ronald Wall.

Citizens have informal chat with cops over coffee

“It’s a plethora of issues that people want to discuss and it’s nice that we can discuss those issues over coffee,” he said. “They feel more at easy and so do the officers, quite frankly.���

“Coffee With a Cop” sheds light on local issues

A good discussion took place at the Hanover Public Library on the morning of Jan. 10 as a small number of citizens took advantage of meeting with the top two members of the Hanover Police Service to ask questions and voice concerns.

Le Mars coffee shop hosts ‘Coffee With A Cop’

“It’s nice for us to get out to know the community a little bit better, people that we maybe wouldn’t come into contact with during the duties of our job and that way people can get to know us as well,” said Vickery.

Tuolumne County kids have cocoa with a cop

Dozens of students and parents packed the coffee shop on Monday morning for “Cocoa with a Cop,” the brainchild of a local girl who asked the Sheriff’s Office to host an outreach event specifically for youth. “Kids can’t drink coffee. Kids like cocoa and they can get that instead of coffee,” said Jessica Reiben, an 11-year old home-schooled student.