Shop With A Cop

By now you may have heard about the NLR Police Department's "Shop With a Cop" program wherein police officers walked the isles of the Wal-Mart Supercenter on East McCain Blvd. with 12 kids ages 4 to 15 in helping them pick presents out for themselves or family members. These families are chosen and screened to ensure a real financial need is present. With the help of donations from local churches, civic clubs, businesses and individuals this program in it's second year has been very successful! And it has been an opportunity for our NLR Cops to give back to the community!

For the past two years the NLR Police Officer heading up this worthwhile event has been our very own Lakewood Substation Patrol Officer, Tommy Norman. Tommy has introduced himself at our last two association meetings while providing us with important area crime reports and pro-active anti-crime pointers we can use to protect ourselves and our families! He currently has the 3:00 to 11:00 p.m. shift out of the Lakewood Substation. And most importantly Tommy, in recognizing that the substation may not be manned every minute of the evening, has provided his personal cell phone number to ensure that we can always reach him! Now that's real dedication to community spirit, way beyond the standard call to duty! His cell phone number is 366-4330. If you can not contact anyone at the substation's phone number of 812-2690 then feel free to call him direct. Please recognize that he may be on patrol while taking your call and may have to get back to you. Of course, in an extreme emergency don't forget that 911 is available for an immediate response to your need!

Indeed it is a very comfort knowing that we are blessed with having Officer Tommy Norman's dedication to service over and above the norm available to meet our personal as well as our neighborhood's safety needs!"

Nate Brandes