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Police Officer's Kind Note Eases Fears of Sleepless Girls

Two sisters in Edmond, Oklahoma were having trouble sleeping, fraught with worry over whether their home was safe from crime. Their mother even began showing them the locked windows and doors each night and allowed them to sleep with baseball bat under the covers. Then, Lt. Paul Barbour, on his night shift patrol for the local police department, took a few minutes to pen a hand-written note to the girls assuring them that everything looked good in their neighborhood. He taped the note to the door.

Officer Honored for Buying Shoplifted Sandwiches for Homeless Man

A New Hampshire Police Officer, Jeffrey Wholley, responded to a shoplifting complaint against a 32-year-old man with four sandwiches in his coat valued at $9.16. The man was homeless and hungry. After consulting with his sergeant, as well as the Laconia Cumberland Farms store which issued the call, Wholley decided to refrain from prosecuting the man. He then purchased the sandwiches for the man so he would have something to eat.

President Obama Celebrates Top Cops

President Obama welcomed to the White House Saturday the winners of the TOP COPS award for law enforcement who have shown extraordinary bravery and valor in the line of duty, including Lieutenant Brian Murphy, who was the first officer on the scene in response to the shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin last year.