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Children To Receive Easter Holiday Visit From Sheriff’s Office Staff

Release Date: April 12, 2006

Members of the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office “Special Services” Squad and Crime Prevention Bureau will be visiting children tomorrow at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center and Hope House in observance of the Easter Holiday this weekend.

“This is a wonderful example of how the Sheriff’s Office assists agencies in our community. I appreciate our volunteers and the work they to do to serve others,” said Shelby County Sheriff Mark H. Luttrell, Jr.

The Special Services Squad visits senior citizens throughout Shelby County to check on their safety and to give them suggestions to help them keep from being victims of crime. The squad also supports Deputies and Sheriff’s Emergency Services personnel at community events.

The Sheriff’s Crime Prevention Bureau provides Deputies to serve as school resource officers at selected Shelby County Schools. The bureau also has Deputies and other personnel available to conduct anti-crime programs at schools, churches, civic clubs and other gatherings.

This is the second year volunteers from the Special Services Squad and the Crime Prevention Bureau have visited patients at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center and at Hope House, an agency that serves children who are either infected with the HIV virus or have a family member suffering with the disease.

“Easter is a special time of year for children. However, for a child to be in the hospital or have a debilitating illness at this time of year can be disheartening. We thought it would be encouraging to visit the children and let them know we are thinking about them,” said Joyce Studard, Commander of the Special Services Squad.

Partnering with the Sheriff’s Office is the Easter Bunny Foundation. The foundation will provide the bunny suit, plush toys, and activity books for the children.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office is the first law enforcement agency in Tennessee to partner with the foundation to coordinate the visits at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center and Hope House.

Staff members from the Sheriff’s Office will be at Hope House at ten o’clock tomorrow morning. The volunteers will then visit Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center at one o’clock tomorrow afternoon.

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