Coffee with a Cop, Senior Talk Held April 14

According to Lt. Michael R. Bernard of the Bedford Police Department, in 2014, the department began the ”Coffee with a Cop” and Senior Citizen talk series. The program is held every second Tuesday of the month at the Bedford Safety Complex from 7 to 9 a.m.

The programs are an opportunity to bring the community together with the Bedford Police Department.

“Coffee with a Cop” is a national program that is supported by the Community Oriented Policing Services, (COPS) of the United States Department of Justice and was started by the Hawthorne California Police Department. The program has been a huge success throughout the country, he noted.

The month of April’s ”Coffee with a Cop” and Senior Citizen talk will be from 7 to 9 a.m. on Tuesday April 14, at the Bedford Falls assisted living facility located at 5 Corporate Drive in Bedford.

“The goal for moving this monthly event is to promote the program and to branch out and offer it to residents who can’t make it to the Bedford Safety Complex,” he noted in a press release. “Come meet with a Bedford Police Officer in a relaxed 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 where they live and discuss whatever concerns that are important to them.”

If you have a suggestion on a location for the next Coffee with a Cop and Senior Citizen talk please contact Officer Robert Lavoie at rlavoie@bedfordnh.org or 472-5113.