Tupelo Police Department officers visited First United Methodist Church Dayschool for Community Helper Week, spending time with students and showing them police equipment.
Captain Mansell, Lieutenant Carter, Sergeant Parker, Corporal Price and Corporal Moore attended the visit. Students got an up-close look at the department’s SWAT Team BearCat armored vehicle, a patrol car and some of the department’s drones.
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The officers said they enjoyed visiting with the students and hoped the children enjoyed the experience as much as they did.
Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."
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