IF LAST week was anything to go by, the Coffee with a Cop initiative might be around for a while in Casey.
On Thursday police launched the special community program at Endeavour Hills Shopping Centre where residents were encouraged to come and meet their local cops and share a cuppa or two.
The Coffee with a Cop program, originally started in the US, aims to create new ways in which police can better interact with community members.
Acting Senior Sergeant Jen McKenna is helping co-ordinate the program.
“It personalises it, it gives them the opportunity to meet people,” she said.
“There’s no agendas, no forums, it’s whatever the community want to discuss.
“I think with policing you go job to job, and a lot of those jobs aren’t always meeting people in good circumstances so police members don’t get an opportunity to meet people in an informal way, it’s generally when people need us.
“This gives people the chance to meet us in an informal setting.”
Sen Sgt McKenna said the Coffee with a Cop initiative would be run in Casey monthly, with the hope of taking it to other suburbs after the Endeavour Hills trial.
For more information, contact Sen Sgt McKenna at Endeavour Hills Police Station on 9709 7666.
