For Vicki Foster, helping people in distress was the best part of being a police officer.
“You can calm them down, or you can even resolve their issue,” Foster told Queen City News in April, reflecting on her decades-long career with the department in which she rose from patrol officer to sergeant, captain, major, deputy chief and assistant chief. “And it’s a different level of helping people, because the people that call us are in complete distress.”
Foster, retired Charlotte-Mecklenburg assistant police chief and highest-ranking woman officer in CMPD history, died on Friday surrounded by family and friends…