NORWOOD – Police departments in Massachusetts are building bonds with local students in a creative new way. Special trading cards are helping children get more comfortable with officers across the state, including in Norwood.
“I have all of them I’m just missing one,” Norwood seventh grader Lorena Soares said.
She’s been collecting the trading cards featuring local police and her school’s resource dog for the past couple of years, starting when she was in fifth grade.
Collectible police trading cards
Officers in town each have their own cards as a way for students to get to know them. The initiative continues to grow in Norwood with students looking forward to collecting the cards.
School Resource Officer Geoffrey Baguma spends his time at Coakley Middle School. He says the cards have allowed him to create better relationships with students he sees regularly.
“It literally feels like the police uniform is taken down,” Baguma said.