By Jake Busch
Marietta Every day Journal
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A ten-year-old boy had his want come true Friday when he was sworn in as a member of each the Cobb County Police and Fireplace departments.
Arya Patel, who has osteosarcoma, a bone most cancers, spent the day motivating officers, combating crime and working drills with firefighters as a part of Make-a-Want Georgia’s effort to show his dream of being a police officer into actuality.
“It makes me comfortable and it makes the opposite individuals which might be within the hospital comfortable and never be scared,” Patel mentioned of his day.
Patel mentioned his ardour for police work stems from a want to save lots of individuals from being harm and killed.
“I’ve seen cops catching dangerous guys … so I’d like to be a police officer,” Patel mentioned. “I really feel somewhat nervous, however I’m going to be courageous.”
The younger man acquired a real hero’s welcome on the Cobb Police Coaching Middle early Friday morning, arriving in a SWAT BearCat car behind a police motorcade.
Varied Cobb police automobiles with flashing lights lined the car parking zone because the motorcade drove in, and a pair of officers set off smoke machines to welcome Patel and his mother and father, Paresh and Sangitaben, to the middle.
Upon strolling into the constructing, the household was greeted by two rows of cheering cops and employees lining Patel’s path to the auditorium the place he could be sworn in.
Within the coaching heart auditorium, these officers and employees, along with police recruits, watched as Cobb Public Security Director Michael Register and Cobb Fireplace Chief Invoice Johnson swore Arya into the police and hearth departments, respectively.
Patel was wearing a custom-fitted police uniform, together with badge and belt. He additionally acquired a framed One centesimal-anniversary police badge and his personal Cobb Fireplace badge after taking the oath.
Then it was off to save lots of the day and make perpetually reminiscences for Patel and his mother and father.
Register mentioned after the swearing-in ceremony that it was particular to be part of making the boy’s want come true.
“On the coronary heart of public security is how we affect individuals’s lives,” Register mentioned. “How impactful it’s to affect a teen’s life like we did immediately with the Make-A-Want Basis .”
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