The Washington Township Police Department and the Community Policing
Unit, with the financial support of the Municipal Alliance has instituted
a Police Trading Card program.
The mission of the program is to reach out to residents of the community
sixteen years or younger, in an attempt to expand communications between
the police officers and the more junior members of the community. The
emphasis of the program is to place emphasis on the community caretaking
role of police officers in the township. Ideally, the trading card program
will reinforce the message to the children of our community that they
can approach a Washington Township Police Officer under any circumstances.
Participants in the program are requested to ask for only one card
from each officer. Since the purpose of the program is to have children
approach our officers and request a card, parents, coaches, troop leaders
etc. should not request cards for participants in their programs.
The complete set of police trading cards consists of 35 different officers.
An interactive collage of the cards is located on the Police Department
web site at http://www.wtpdmorris.org/department/Individual/rostercard.html
. The fist ten participants who collect all 35 cards will be awarded
a $50 savings bond. Some of the rules are:
