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o NILES HERALD-SPECTATOR n $1.5() Thursday, September 7. 2017 fi Iishe raldspectats )l(4 ) Il GO 0 COffee and community Nues police officers meet with residents to visit, answer questions.Page 4 DIE-MUSIK MEISTERS Stein time Here's where to celebrate Oktoberfest with German food, drink and plenty of oompah bands.Page 19 OPINION Kindness, generosity in Little Free Pantries Columnist Paul Sassone's antidote to chal- lenging times is found in some individuals' response to growing food insecurity Little Free Pantries, which number more than 1,000 across the countryPage 17 MIKE ISAACSIPIONEER PRESS Nues police officers set up Aug. 25 at Panera Bread restaurant in Nues for the department's first Coffee With a Cop gathering 'n years. Police said they are making themselves available at various sites in Nues in the coming months so they can visit with the community and provide Information or answer questions. 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Ifa police officer is there, he said, the parent improve relations has said you better eat your with community vegetables or I'll have him lock you up. BY MIKE ISAACS "I'll actually tell the par- Pioneer Press ent you're telling the child the exact opposite of what If it seems of late that you will want him to do," everywhere you go for a Torabene said. "Ifthat child quick bite to eat, you run needs help, you're telling intoa handful of Niles him not to go to the police I police officers, rest assured because he could be ar- there's nothing to fear. rested for not eating his That's exactly the mes- vegetables." sage Niles police officers Officer Gene Krause said want to send to the public it's important to get the with the department's "Cof- pulse ofthe community and fee with a Cop" program. understand the concerns The idea, said Cmdr. Robert that exist. Torabene, is to reach out to "It's not smoke and mir- the community and forge a rom," he said about such positive relationship. initiatives. "There's a lot of An installment of the value toit.People have program was held Aug. 25 at questions and we try to Panera Bread in Niles. answer truthfully or get "This is the first gather- them answers if we don't ing ofthis kind we've had in have them." four years' said Torabene. Like the other officers, "We did it brieflybefore, but MIKE ISAACS/PIONEER PRESS PHOTOS Sgt. Tony Scipione said po- it wasn't as well organized" Above: Nues School Resource Officer Noe Hernandez, center, hands out information on the Nues Police Department's lice want to send a message Torabene said this time,Citizens Police Academy at the police department's first Coffee With a Cop gathering in years held Aug. 25 at Panera to the public that police the police department has Bread restaurant in Niles. Below: Hernandez, right, visits with an early morning diner at the Coffee With a Cop gathering. officers are accessible and scheduledgatherings ready to help. through November. In ad- '1"he texting and "You turn on the news dition to Panera Bread, sev- and you can see how police eral officers were scheduled celiphone thing are viewed nowadays," he to be available for visits at said. "It's partly our fault so McDonald's, Starbucks, in a vehicle is we need to get back to the Dunkin' Donuts and other basics - talking with our frequently visited venues on always a ques- citizens and saying, 'Hey, other dates. we're real people too.'" Coffee with a Cop comes tion." Officer Noe Hernandez is out of Police Chief Luis Cmdr. Robert Torabene, stationed in Niles schools Tigera's Crime Prevention Nues police this fall as the school re- Action Plan, an initiative source officer, another part calling for a new crime of the community outreach prevention bureau and with Coffee with a Cop andinitiative.