Per Sheriff Cameron
On 12/17/11, The St. Mary’s County Optimist and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 will host their 9th annual Shop with a Cop Program. Officers from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office, Maryland State Police, Maryland Natural Resource Police Department, Department of Defense Patuxent River, United States Coast Guard, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, United States Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations will take over 100 children shopping at Wal-Mart.
The officers pick the children up at their homes and bring them to the Wildwood Shopping Center where the officers convoy together in their police cruisers under escort to the Wal-Mart a mile away.
The officers meet at Wildwood at 0830 hours, and travel to Wal-Mart. After shopping, the officers take the children to the St. Mary’s County Fairgrounds where they are fed breakfast and the gifts for the children are wrapped by volunteers.
On 12/09/11, a fund raiser will be held at the Red Robin Restaurant in California Maryland. Officers will be on hand to raise money for the program. The St. Mary's County Shop with a Cop organization is a 501c3 charitable organization and any donations are tax deductible.
If any one has any questions about donating to the program they can contact Bill Raddatz at (301) 475-4200x1958.