Bossier City Police Officers are making some under-privileged kids' Christmas a lot better by letting them buy their own presents.

Bossier City Police Local 645 and the Bossier Chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #39 will take 70 children Christmas shopping in their annual 'Shop with a Cop' program beginning at 6 P.M. on Thursday, December 15, 2016 at the Wal-Mart Super Center on Airline Drive.

Officers will accompany the children as they shop for Christmas gifts with funds raised locally over the past year by members of Local 645 and the Bossier FOP chapter. Most of the children taking part were pre-selected from Bossier City elementary schools while others were chosen by officers based on the their family’s need.

Along with providing children in need with gifts for Christmas, the Shop with a Cop program also helps build strong and positive relationships between the children and police officers.

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