Florida police department program incentivizes kids caught doing the right thing

A Florida constabulary section is catching section kids connected the thoroughfare — doing the close thing.

The Sebastian Police Department (SPD) connected the state's Atlantic seashore successful Indian River County launched a caller run this week with its Caught Doing the Right Thing coin programme for kids doing bully deeds successful the city.

The programme rewards children for doing the close happening with prizes shared by section businesses, similar a tiny bid of fries astatine Burger King.

A video showing the programme successful enactment has dispersed acold and wide connected Facebook, with much than 110,000 views. It features SPD Officer Tegpreet Singh and a local boy going implicit the rewards of the coin program.

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Sebastian Police Department Officer Tegpreet Singh hands a kid a Caught Doing the Right Thing coin. (Sebastian Police via Facebook)

"We similar to observe the bully portion of our assemblage and our kids and hopefully person a lasting representation that we’re conscionable not ever determination for the bad," SPD Lt. Robert Vafiades told FOX 35 Orlando. 

Vafiades shared with FOX 35 that section children tin person the coins for bully choices, similar "kids wearing their beingness preservers or, similar successful the video, picking up trash."

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If a SPD serviceman "catches" a kid doing a bully thing, helium oregon she tin scan a QR codification printed connected the coin and take from assorted section Sebastian businesses offering rewards.

SPD Officer Singh shows however to usage the QR codification connected the Caught Doing the Right Thing coins. (Sebastian Police via Facebook)

Sebastian is located astir 50 miles southbound of Cape Canaveral with a colonisation conscionable nether 25,000.

A kid who received a Caught Doing the Right Thing coin redeems his prize astatine a section concern successful Sebastian, Fla. (Sebastian Police via Facebook)

The Caught Doing the Right Thing programme seeks to span the spread betwixt the constabulary and the assemblage by recognizing the bully successful section kids. The section besides hosted a Touch and Tour lawsuit earlier this period for children to spot constabulary vehicles up close.

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The coin thrust is funded done donations to the COPE programme by the Sebastian Police Department.

The SPD did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.