And a traffic officer at stops in the next few days in Raleigh, it might not be so bad.
The Raleigh Police Department and Advance Auto Parts I know joined with the aim that roads be more safe.
Your goal is to issue fewer tickets and offer more assistance.
Advance Auto Parts approached the Raleigh Police with the purpose of help at persons that they could need a change of bulbs or a broken light.
Hence, the boss Raleigh Police, Estella Pattersonannounced the program.
She highlighted the reinvention of the police and how a initiative so can to benefit to community.
Patterson reported that they will deliver gift cards of Advance Auto Parts $25 for a total of $5,000.
“If we know that there is a need, if we are dealing with someone who has limited income and says to us, ‘My headlight is off, my tail light is off and I need help’, let’s take are gift cards and say, ‘Advance Auto Parts what help to to do this, ‘”he explained.
It’s about the first initiative of its kind in North Carolina.
Officers will not detain people just to deliver gift cards, but if a person is detained for something minor and the officers note that the person could use the help, they could end up driving with a gift card.
And maybe not with one more.
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