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Coffee with a Cop

A Community Policing program that started in 2011 in Hawthorne California with the Hawthorne Police Department. The program is a global community policing program and brand created and managed by Hawthorne Police Captain Mike Ishii and Sgt Chris Cognac, Lt Robbie Williams serves as an instructor and Coffee with a Cop expert. Coffee with Cop is managed by police officers and not by any private corporation or business. The logo and name are "free use" for participating police agencies world wide.

The Coffee with a Cop program is currently active in 16 countries and 4 languages and Coffee with a Cop events are conducted by thousands of police agencies around the world.

English: Coffee with a Cop

French: Cafe avec un Policier

Spanish: Cafecito con Policia

Dutch: Koffie met een Kop

History of Coffee with a Cop:

Hawthorne Police Chief Robert Fager wanted to find a better way to connect w the community and tasked the community affairs unit with exploring and creating something different than the usual "town hall meeting". The program was initially started by Sgt Chris Cognac and Detective John Dixon at a local McDonald's. It was replicated by the Gulf Shores Alabama, Evansville Indiana and Superior Wisconsin Police Departments with great success.

A grant was written in partnership with the Center for Public Safety and Justice from the University of Illinois, Dr Laura Kunard and Charlene Moe and funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Policing (COPS Office) for $399,990 in 2012. Under the grant, Sgt Cognac, Det Dixon and Captain Keith Kauffman traveled to 12 regions in the U.S. as well as Montreal Canada to teach the community policing curriculum of Coffee with a Cop and to help grow the program around the U.S. The classes proved very popular and Coffee with a Cop began to grow around the U.S. and French Speaking Canada where it is know as "Cafe Avec Un Policier."

in 2015 Supt Peter Lennon of the Fairfield Comman d in Sydney Australia held the first ever Coffee with a Cop in Australia. The program proved a great way to interact with refugees and others who may have had mistrust in the police in the countries they had fled from. Since then Coffee with a Cop has become a regular fixture around Australia and events are even held in the outback by the Northern Territory Police

in 2016 the Honolulu Police Department in the State of Hawaii became the final state in the U.S. to implement Coffee with a Cop and it quickly spread to the other islands due to it's simplicity and good fit with the "Aloha Spirit" in Hawaii where police and citizens could "talk story"

Coffee with a Cop Day is help on the first Wednesday of every October.

On October 7th 2016 the very first "National Coffee with a Cop Day" was held with over 600 events held on that day around the U.S. and was the #7 trend on twitter that day.

On October 4th 2017 there were approximately 1500 events in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand.