(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City police officers Scott Hall and Michael Blackburn demo their bikes for Catalina, Faith, and Mia Cardenes Wednesday June 13, 2018, during an event at a Salt Lake City 7-Eleven store promoting the donation of 7,500 Slurpee coupons by the company for police officers to hand out to children.
Salt Lake City police officers will encourage kids to chill out this summer — with the help of local 7-Elevens.
Armed with 7,500 coupons for free Slurpees, city cops will be on the lookout for good behavior. If they catch a kid using a crosswalk, wearing a bicycle helmet or a seatbelt or doing some kind of good deed for someone else, they’ll reward the youngsters with the frozen carbonated drinks in Operation Chill.
“This is a really neat program, because it helps us foster great relationships within our community. And especially with our youth,” Chief Mike Brown said in a video posted by the city in 2017. “Kids out there, keep doing good things. Look for our officers. We have a lot of these coupons we’ll be handing out.”
It’s the 23rd year for the program, which, according to 7-Eleven, includes more than 1,000 law enforcement agencies across the country handing out up to 1.33 million Slurpee coupons.
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