A group of local law enforcement agencies is reaching a helping hand to people in need more than 5,000 miles away … on the battlefields of Ukraine.
came at the perfect time, Dresker said. The Oak Harbor Police Department already had a set of ballistic vests that had expired and were in storage, where they would have been destroyed if an alternative use could not have been found for them. The Anacortes Police Department and Skagit County Sheriff’s Office had a similar situation.
Despite the vests being technically expired as per the manufacturer, they should still function for quite a while.For the police officers in the department, donating the vests is a small but concrete way to make a difference after watching the horrific footage out of Ukraine. “We see the images, we know about what’s going on over there … you feel, to a degree, impotent with being able to do anything about it,” Dresker said. “I think it feels good, at least for us in the police department here, and hopefully the community and the people who have taken part in putting this together, that here is this small piece of something we can do to try to help those people out, especially when you see the innocent civilians who are getting killed.
And with Oak Harbor’s strong military presence from NAS Whidbey, it is especially meaningful to be able to help soldiers half a world away. “Oak Harbor is a military community,” Dresker said. “When conflicts occur, military families understand what that means, and so being able to assist with something like this, I think, provides some small measure of satisfaction.”
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