FULLERTON : Toy Police Car to Aid in Anti-Drug Effort
The Police Department will add a miniature, remote-controlled police car to its arsenal to help spread an anti-drug message to young students.
The four-foot-long police car has a two-way transmitter that allows the car to seemingly talk and listen to students while an officer operates the car from a short distance away.
The City Council unanimously agreed to buy the robotic car using $6,550 in community donations earmarked for it. The department expects to receive the new car in about a week.
“It really is an attention-getter,” Sgt. Joe Klein said. The operator can drive the car around, make it do wheelies and even make it dance to music, he said.
The car will be a tool for police officers to spread an anti-drug message to students from kindergarten through fourth grades, Klein said. The department might also use the car to break the ice with young crime victims, he said.
“Little kids will feel more comfortable talking to a robot or a little car like this” rather than an adult police officer, he said.
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