Police in Linden given a treat

Pastor of the Flourishing Place Valerie Sharpe (standing) addresses the gathering at the appreciation ceremony for police serving Linden and Region Ten.

The Flourishing Place Ministry in collaboration with the Regional Welfare Committee held an event of appreciation for the Police Department of E Division last Tuesday at the Mackenzie Police Station Mess Hall.

Pastor of the Flourishing Place Valerie Sharpe noted that the relationship between the Linden public and the police has been strained since the electricity protests of July 2012 and expressed the hope that the event could be “one way of starting to reconnect and begin to improve the relationship between the police and the community of Linden.”

She said that although police officers tend to be transient residents in Linden, traditionally, there has generally been