John Rainwater looked astounded when Merrillville Police Commander Robert Wiley told a 8-year-old he also watched a “Walking Dead” and review all a show’s comic books.
Rainwater, with a military badge plaque stranded to his red T-shirt, sat opposite from Wiley during a Dunkin Donuts on U.S. 30 Friday morning. Other departments in a area, such as Gary police, have hold identical events, though Friday was Merrillville Police Department’s initial Coffee with a Cop event, where military correlate and discuss with people in a village they serve.
In between assembly officers, Rainwater done certain to pet a department’s K-9, Jack, who Rainwater pronounced was “really nice.” With a bottle of divert in front of a Merrillville child and an iced coffee in front of Patrolman Josh Miskus, Rainwater pronounced he was carrying a “good” morning as a dual connected over movies.
“I consider a lot of people maybe feel intimidated to speak to a military officer,” Miskus said.
It’s critical to get out and uncover people that cops are not frightful and are there to assistance people, generally given a enlightenment with policing right now, Miskus said.
“I consider a some-more we’re out in a community, a better,” Miskus said.
The department’s initial Coffee with a Cop eventuality came about after Mickus and a manager of a Merrillville Dunkin Donuts, Sanjey Patel, motionless they wanted to do something together for a community. Some of a department’s officers visit a Dunkin Donuts, and Patel has got to know them, so it only done clarity to have it there, they said.
Miskus pronounced they weren’t certain how many people would come, though as a morning went on, a seating area began to fill up. Joyce Rainwater, John’s mother, pronounced she listened about it from her cousin, and she suspicion it was a good eventuality to get out of a house.
Allison Ellis, who has been an officer with a dialect for about 10 years and grew adult in a area, pronounced a eventuality was a “great idea.”
“Most of us are here on a time off since we wish to be here,” Ellis said.
The dialect is always out perplexing to correlate with people, though saying how Friday went, Wiley pronounced a Coffee with a Cop eventuality “is something we should’ve been doing a prolonged time ago.”
Chief Joseph Petruch pronounced a eventuality supposing another eventuality to network and accommodate people in a village face to face. That’s something that Marcellus Hendricks, of Hammond, pronounced his nonprofit’s bureau in Merrillville aims to learn immature people. Hendricks pronounced he went Friday morning to speak with officers and build a attribute with them to use what he teaches of how critical it is to accommodate people in person.
As Ethel Rodgers, of Merrillville, went around Dunkin Donuts articulate to a officers, she couldn’t contend adequate good things about a Merrillville Police Department.
“My hats off to them,” Rodgers said.
She pronounced she enjoys saying a officers, including Miskus, during a Dunkin Donuts regularly, revelation them hello and vouchsafing them know she appreciates them.
“Y’all are doing an glorious job,” Rodgers pronounced to Miskus.
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