City of Coral Springs makes 6-year-old getting life-saving surgery ‘police officer for a day’

A -year-old boy got the opportunity to be a Coral Springs police officer for a day thanks to the city of Coral Springs LJ Howells suffers from brain aneurysms and will soon have what s described as life-saving surgery Howell s day as an honorary officer began with a swearing-in ceremony followed by a full parade with trucks and sirens Be a police officer announced Howell when required what he wished to do When demanded why that s what he craved he responded To catch the bad guys So about a month month and a half ago LJ s mom and dad Meg and Luis reached out to me and described me a story announced Coral Springs Police Department Chief Brad Mock We were blown away with the story and courage of this young man and how countless amounts of times he s shown sponsorship for us Mock noted he made the event happen to achieve Howell s dream I got with our district involvement unit and commented you know let s make it about LJ We got with the fire department the whole city the parks and rec the community works the police department everybody came together We requested to make a very special day for him he explained Howells is set to have his brain surgery at the end of the month in Boston