 On Wednesday, March 13th, Pikeville Police Department hosted their first coffee with a cop event at Heavenly Donuts. Community partners and friends of our local officers came out to enjoy coffee, donuts and some relaxing downtime. Those in attendance were happy to spend their morning in a positive environment with plenty of coffee to go around. This is the department's first ever coffee with a cop. This is something that we've talked about for many years and you know knew it was a good idea but finally today it came to fruition and March 13th, 2024 is our first ever coffee with a cop. We had it here at Heavenly Donuts. They was nice enough to last to use their location and it went over real well. We've seen you know some familiar faces. Obviously some of our city officials showed up today to give us some support and then we had members of from UPIKE to show up and some other organizations that we work we all work with on a daily basis and then just some members of the community came in today just to just talk and have a cup of coffee and some even enjoy a donut before they left. Make your ride one of a kind and see the experts at J&M Custom Auto and off-road. It's your customization candy store. Visit jmcustomauto.com and select your making model. It's that easy. Window tanning, remote starts, leather interiors, sound systems, front and rear bumpers, spray and bed liners, bed covers, wheels and tires, lift kits, step rails, even underglow like kits and so much more. If you can dream it, we can do it at J&M Custom. March 13th also holds significant meaning for the department as it marks six years since the tragic loss of officer Scotty Hamilton. A prayer circle was held outside the establishment to remember him. When we was looking at dates we was talking about you know maybe having having this event in March and we just thought it was feeding that March 13th which is a real important date to us because that's the date that we lost Scotty Hamilton six years ago today. We lost Scotty so we all liked drinking coffee with Scotty and knew Scotty liked coffee and we try to come up with different ways that we can honor Scotty and we thought no better way than to to come up here and just fellowship and have some coffee and you know just remember him as well. It was nice. We had brought some bracelets that to honor Scotty to give out to the community but what we was pleasantly surprised by is a lot of them's already wearing bracelets that in memory of Scotty you know it's been six years and you know we felt the support a great deal then and we still feel that support now and Scotty wasn't just our loss he was the community's loss and he you know say it all the time but he'll he'll truly never be forgotten. Reporting for Mountain Top News I'm Nick Collum.