Community relations in Charlotte took a festive turn this past week as the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Steele Creek Division hosted its 7th annual Christmas with the Community event. According to a social media post from CMPD, the day was packed with holiday spirit, complete with Santa Claus distributing toys and fulfilling the wishes of hundreds of children.
The typically uniformed officers of Steele Creek Division donned a more cheerful attire to joyfully mingle with the attendees. The initiative aims to not only brighten the holiday season but to also solidly lay down the foundations for relationships within the community, which they hope to quite seamlessly carry into the other seasons. “Our Steele Creek Division’s 7th annual Christmas with the Community was pure holiday magic,” CMPD described the event in their Facebook post…