A community policing project is currently underway in Warren as a group of Warren Police Department officers banded together to purchase and distribute school supplies to children in town.
Top photo: Warren police officer John’Niqua Libbett shows the school supplies purchased by her and fellow officers to distribute to local students. Photo by Tim Kessler.
By Tim Kessler
Saline River Chronicle
John’Niqua Libbett spearheaded the effort along with officers Bryce McKinney, Lee Van Brown, Keith Thompson and Jonathan Cox, dispatcher Larenda Green, Hugh Connor of S&H Tactical and Libbett’s Aunt Angela Curry-Hodge of Georgia.
They donated about $300 which was used to buy backpacks, pencils, colored pencils, erasers, notebook paper, tablets, crayons, markers and folders.
Those items will be placed in police units and each child will be given a backpack. There are currently about 32 backpacks planned for distribution.
Libbett said she had done such services for individual families before but this is her first community-wide effort.