A 911 call about a possible break and enter in southern Ontario ended with two police officers preparing a meal for an injured man who had not eaten in two days.
Const. Heather Burgess, of the Waterloo Regional Police, and her partner Const. Jay Van Kalsbeek responded to a call about a break-and-enter in Cambridge, Ont. this week. When they arrived, they found a man who had a broken hip and couldn’t get up to investigate a noise he had heard.
When the officers interviewed the man, they realized that he hadn’t eaten in two days.
Burgess decided to take a look in the man’s refrigerator, and found that it was “full” of food. The two officers took it upon themselves to grab some leftovers and put together a supper of roast beef, potatoes, vegetables and bread for the resident.
“It seemed like the right thing to do,” Burgess said in an interview with CTV Kitchener.
Kalsbeek says, in his 17 years of policing, he’s never prepared a meal for someone. But he was happy to do it.
“We’re not robots, we have families and we do care about the people that we do serve,” Kalsbeek told CTV Kitchener.
