The City of Jasper, Indiana

Cops and Kids

The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #138 consists of officers and civilian personnel from the Jasper, Huntingburg and Ferdinand Police Departments, Dubois County Sheriff's Office, Indiana State Police, Indiana Conservation Officers and The Holland Town Marshal and Birdseye Town Marshal. The FOP lodge combines forces with the Jasper Wal-Mart and the Jasper Moose Family Center to help enrich the Christmas holiday for 60 or more children from the Dubois County area every year.

Children from the Tri-Cap Head Start program are taken to the Jasper Wal-Mart on a date just before Christmas. The children are then paired with their police officer for a day of shopping and fun. The officer and child shop for needed clothing items and toys. After the shopping cart is full, the children are loaded back into the vehicles and a caravan of police cars, with lights shining and sirens wailing, head through town to the Jasper Moose Family Center. The children then have lunch with Santa Claus and their police officer.

Money is raised by the Fraternal Order of Police #138, donations from the Jasper Wal-Mart, Jasper Moose Family Center and the community to make this event possible.

If you have any questions or would like to make a donation to the Cops and Kids program, please contact the Jasper Police Department at 812-482-2255 or the Dubois County Sheriff's Office at 812-482-3522

Trooper Kirby Stailey with his shopper
	Jasper Officer Brian Lampert and his shopper.
Holland Officer Josh Hemmer and EMT Paula Boyd with their shopper.	Trooper Gavin Wilson with his shopper.
Conservation Officer Eric Doane with his shopper.	Jasper Officer Mike Stallman with wife Autumn and mother Ruth and their shoppers.
	Jasper Chief Mike Bennett with wife Ann with their shopper.
Jasper Records Clerk Chris Hollinden and Parking Enforcement Connie Betz with their shopper.