Children Shop with a Cop

Portland Police Department Sponsors Eight Children to Shop with a Cop

When: December 13, 2013

What: The Portland Police Department along with their police unions, Police Benevolent Association and Superior Officer Association, Target and Portland Pie Company will sponsor Shop with a Cop, an opportunity for children to do some holiday shopping with a local police officer. Eight children from more than one hundred applicants were selected based on their answer to the question "Why I want to go shopping with a police officer?" to be a part of the fifth annual holiday event.

Children will be picked up in a patrol car by a police officer at one of Portland Recreation's after-school locations and taken to Target where they will have the opportunity to purchase gifts for their family members. The officer will accompany the child as they shop. Afterwards, the officers and children will return to the Portland Police Department to wrap their gifts. Portland Pie Company will provide pizzas.

Agenda:

Friday December 13, 2013 at approximately 4:00 PM Officers and children arrive at Target

5:30 PM wrapping and pizza party at Police Department

Where: Portland Police Department
109 Middle Street, Portland