Windsor Heights Police Department Says, “Thank you!” to the Community

 

(Windsor Heights, IA)  At the end of 2011 the police department received word that it would receive an award from the National Association of Town Watches (NATW) for agency and community partnership involving this city’s celebration held on August 2nd for National Night Out. For this event the police department partnered with the community to collect “goodies” and resources to send to troops overseas serving in Afghanistan. One of Windsor Heights’ own police officers was serving as a First Sergeant with the Air National Guard at an airbase where troops were being treated for wounds suffered in battle and being stabilized prior to airlift to Germany.

WHPD Officer Hector Arias worked to coordinate the donations received from the city and had them re-disseminated among troops through the Wounded Warrior Project and to service men and women serving at forward operating bases that didn’t have regular access to “treats” or personal care products.  Because of this overwhelming show of support by our community, we donated over 800 pounds of materials! The NATW chose to recognize our police department as a National Award winner. Your department was one of only 31 departments across the nation in its class (population under 15,000), and the only one in the state of Iowa that received this recognition. 

We are proud of this award, grateful to the council and Mayor for their support, and for the outstanding community effort given to the men and women that choose to serve our country. And because of this outpouring of resources by the community, we have decided to make a community service project a part of each year’s National Night Out celebration. We are currently looking for suggestions of worthwhile organizations to target for our 2012 event that is scheduled for August 7th at Colby Park.