Audrey Caro
The Sweet Home Police Department hosted its first Coffee with Cop event at Sugar Vibes on Oct. 4, but Chief Jeff Lynn is planning to hold one quarterly.
The nation-wide annual event, which started in multi-ethnic Hawthorne, Calif. in 2011, is gaining popularity, Lynn said.
“It gives both community members and officers and dispatchers the ability to meet and talk outside of what would be a ‘normal’ police contact,” Lynn said. “Our hope…