Dear Petaluma: You Are Invited To 'Coffee With A Cop'

From the Petaluma Police Department:

This Friday, May 29th from 2pm to 4pm, the Aqus Cafe will host Petaluma PD’s first Coffee with a Cop event.

Aqus Cafe is located at 189 H St.

What is Coffee with a Cop you ask?

Coffee with a Cop works because it’s simple. Coffee with a Cop creates an atmosphere that facilitates communication by breaking down the traditional barriers that so often exist between police officers and the citizen’s that they serve.

Coffee with a Cop provides a relaxed, neutral atmosphere with no speeches, no agenda and no preset subjects. It allows a citizen to sit down, one on one with an officer who works in the community that they live, discuss whatever concerns it is that is important to them. The conversation is intimate and personal, important to the citizen and equally to the officer speaking with them.

Coffee with a Cop provides a “face” for both the officer and the citizen to get to know each other and form a working trust by understanding the mutual goals they both have, a better community. Coffee with a Cop provides “distraction free” time with an officer, no pending radio calls or cell phones going off, just good communication.

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