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###  National Coffee with a Cop Day is October 4, 2017

 September 2017 | Volume 10 | Issue 9

Community engagement and trust building is one of the most  important aspects of community-based policing. We, as police, need to create the situations where those things can occur, but it is often difficult and we don’t always reach our intended audience with town hall meetings alone. Coffee  with a Cop is the perfect answer to the question of how  to better engage our community and show our officers in a true and human light. 

          Coffee with a Cop started in Hawthorne, California and was quickly recognized as a simple,  effective, and barrier-free way for officers to interact with the public at  large, in an intimate yet controlled and open setting. The COPS Office funded  the Coffee with a Cop program in 2012-13 and conducted trainings around the U.S.  The program was a huge success and quickly grew, with thousands of Coffee with  a Cop events being held in all 50 states and 15 countries. 

Plain and simple, Coffee with a Cop works because of what it  is and, more importantly, what it is not. The Coffee with a Cop events are designed to let citizens come into a local restaurant or coffee shop, sit down  with an officer, and talk about anything. The beauty of Coffee with a Cop is  that much of the time, the citizens just want to get to know the officer behind  the badge as a person, and that brings us all together as a community. Coffee with a Cop has a mantra of no agenda and no speeches – keep it simple, keep it transparent, and keep it real. 

On October 7, 2016, the very first National Coffee with a  Cop Day was held. Across the U.S. over 600 events celebrated community and created  new and lasting relationships. The event was so popular that it became the seventh overall trending topic on Twitter that day. On October 4th, 2017 we encourage police  departments everywhere to host a Coffee with a Cop in their community. We will  have resources, logos and a special map just for Coffee with a Cop day at the coffeewithacop.com web site. We would love to show  the world all the fantastic photos of officers and community, so post them on  social media and tag them #coffeewithacopday and #coffeewithacop. We will post  the best ones on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/coffeewithacop/.  So start planning your events now, and make sure you put the info on the map at http://coffeewithacop.com/.

Sergeant Chris Cognac          Hawthorne California Police        COPS Office Fellow, 2015
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