HOORAY FOR
POLICE
OFFICERS !
by Elle Parkes
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Names: Parkes, Elle, author.
Title: Hooray for police officers! / by Elle Parkes.
Description: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, 2016. | Series: Bumba booksHooray for community helpers! |
Audience: K to Grade 3.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016001015 (print) | LCCN 2016015222 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512414400 (lb : alk. paper) |
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Table of
Contents
Police
Officers
Protect
Police officers protect
people and places.
Police officers are also
called cops.
Police officers work in
small towns.
They work in cities too.
Where else
do you
think police
officers work?
The police make sure people
follow laws.
Sometimes people do not
follow laws.
Police officers may arrest
those people.
Police cars have bright
lights and sirens.
Police officers turn
them on.
Other people stop
their cars.
Police cars have computers.
Computers help the police find
people and places quickly.
Dogs work with the police.
This dog finds things by their smell.
How else
might dogs help
the police?
People must train to be
police officers.
They learn how to help people.
They also exercise.
Why do
you think
police officers
need exercise?
Police officers work
long days.
Sometimes their job
is unsafe.
Why do you
think a police
officers job can
be unsafe?
Police officers work in many places.
They protect everyone.
Police Officer Tools
lights
radio
gun
police
car
handcuffs
Picture Glossary
arrest to stop and hold someone
by the power of law
computers electronic machines that
store information
exercise to do physical activities to
stay healthy and strong
sirens devices that make
loud sounds
Index
arrest,
cities,
computers,
dogs,
exercise,
laws,
lights,
police cars,
sirens,
towns,
Read More
Bellisario, Gina. Lets Meet a Police Officer. Minneapolis: Millbrook Press,
2013.
Meister, Cari. Police Officers. Minneapolis: Jump!, 2014.
Murray, Julie. Police Officers. Minneapolis: Abdo Kids, 2016.