Officers from the Peachtree City Police Department as well as some agents from the GBI showed up at the city’s first “Coffee With a Cop” event held at a Starbucks on March 23.

The program, which has been used in 47 states, is designed to build face-to-face relationships between officers and citizens. A police spokesman called the Peachtree City gathering a success and said more will be planned in the near future. 

Shown above is Lt. Brad Williams talking with McIntosh High students and an elementary school teacher inside Starbucks.

The national “Coffee With a Cop” program was brought to the attention of Peachtree City officials by McIntosh High School junior Sammie Christensen, who is also helping organize the local event. She saw a coffee klatch with officers while on vacation in Florida and thought it would be a great way for her peers to get to know officers back home.