(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Officer Tiana Hunter tries her skateboarding skills alongside Austin Quinney, 8. The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and Unified Police took 100 children Christmas shopping in Riverton as part of its Shopping with the Shield program on Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018.
The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the Unified Police Department played Santa on Saturday during a Shopping With the Shield event.
This year, the program raised enough money to buy gifts for 100 children and their families, double what it did last year. To encourage donations to the program, officers who gave money were allowed to bypass the normal police grooming policies and grow beards, paint their nails or color their hair bright colors.