A group of Regina students were specially selected for a shopping spree with a Regina Police officer for the holiday season.
Cops + Kids, now in it’s eighth year, is a program which rewards children who have worked hard and made positive strides towards specific goals they have set out for themselves over the past year.
Twenty students in total were able to able to take the day away from the classroom Wednesday and spend time at the Cornwall Centre.
Chief of the Regina Police Service (RPS) Farooq Sheikh said it can be a difficult task choosing 20 students out of the entire city as many are worthy.
“It sends a positive message out to children. Work hard, stay focused and good things will happen,” said Sheikh.
To begin the day, the students were picked up at their respective schools in a limousine minibus by RPS members and taken to …