On Thursday, April 6, 2023, Essex County OPP officers, auxiliary officers, and civilian employees, and volunteers will be packing groceries in support of their 26th Annual Essex County OPP Cop Camp.
The OPP will be in attendance on one of the busiest shopping days of the year at the following Essex County grocery store locations:
Zehrs St Clair Beach – 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Zehrs Kingsville – 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The Essex County OPP Cop Camp exists solely by the generous contributions and donations from the public to the Essex County OPP COPPs for Charity organization. Please help support their 26th annual OPP Cop Camp by making a donation of any amount when you check out at the grocery store on Thursday.
Cop Camp is an annual event, consisting of 80 students from elementary schools across Essex County (Essex, Kingsville, Lakeshore, Leamington, and Tecumseh) who attend and benefit from 3 days of police directed and supervised activities.
Students will be taught the importance of teamwork along with other positive life skills. They will be given guidance by police officers, civilians, auxiliary members and other caring volunteers and community members. These youth are recent graduates of the VIP (Values, Influences and Peers) program and are selected by their individual schools to attend the camp at no cost to them.
Photo by Mike Gosselin
If I’m not mistaken Cop Camp was started when the Town of Kingsville still had their own police department in 1995 .. Dave Boucher was the organizer and did the program .
I have the t shirt that was given out to the VIP graduates received after they finished cop camp .
If you would like a picture of the shirt I can send it to you.