Officers with the Claremore Police Department are trading their patrol cars for a different set of wheels tonight News On 6 says Alyssa Miller shows us how it’s all in an effort to connect with the community the Claremore police department wants you to lace up your skates and join its
Officers in the roller rink Officer James Epperson came up with the idea Chief Cox he tasked me with doing things to build our relationship with the community I was driving by one day I was like you know what we can go to the roller world and have a skate event he
Met with the owners Jordan and Angie who immediately got on board the goal is for the community to come out skate with the cop get to know the police officers in your community and for us to get to know the kids and the adults in our community and just build that relationship
Starting from the ground up we want to let them know we’re human just like them and we’ll probably be following on our skates just as much as they will person says the best payment is we want everybody to show up and be able to skate and have a good time and get to
Know each other and it shouldn’t cost them anything to get to know their local law enforcement skate with a cop is from six to eight tonight at Roller World in Claremore Alyssa Miller Oklahoma Zone news on 6.
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