PHOTOS: Junior Detectives Earn Their Badge at Kentlands Mansion
The City of Gaithersburg hosted Junior Detective Day at the Kentlands Mansion on Sunday.
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Officer Paulichen from Gaithersburg's Traffic Safety Unit is talking about the laser unit used to enforce speeding.
Courtesy of Dan Lane
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City of Gaithersburg police officers joined children ages 5 to 12 Sunday at the Kentlands Mansion for Junior Detective Day.
Kids had the chance to make identification badges and get fingerprinted, learn about neighborhood safety, witness K-9 demonstrations, and explore an actual police car and motorcycle to see all the high tech equipment police officers use.
Upon completion of the program, participants were sworn in as “Junior Detectives” by Gaithersburg Police Chief Mark P. Sroka.
Citizen
1:12 am on Tuesday, July 24, 2012
It's great for the kids to see the police equipment and get finger printed, but why was there a fee for this service? Over the past years, this was always a free service to the citizens of Gaithersburg. I bet if it wasn't held in the Kentlands you would of had a small turn out and citizens wouldn't of wanted to pay. I hope none of the kids were turned away if they didn't have $10.00 to pay the rediculous fee! What happen to the fee that was collected? Did it get donated? Why didn't the police foundation sponsor the event? I couldn't afford to bring my 5 year old son to the event and pay the fee due to being unemployed. And my son was heart broken!