Crime & Safety

Time to Stuff a Cruiser on the Tolland Green

Troopers will be out collecting gifts next month.

'Tis the Season to arrest a toy and stuff it inside a police car. 

The State Police Stuff-A-Cruiser toy and gift collection program has been scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the Tolland Green.
State police from Troop C are again challenging area residents to help them stuff their cruisers with new, unwrapped toys and gifts.

Troopers will also be accepting gift cards and monetary donations. The toys and gifts collected will be distributed to less-fortunate children in the towns served by Troop C, as part of Operation Team Spirit, the annual statewide State Police toy drive. 

The Troopers, assisted by the Tolland Public Safety Explorer Post, will be in their cruisers on the Green to greet everyone dropping off gifts. Gifts will be given to children up to age 17 and there is a "significant need" for holiday gifts or gift cards for children and teens ages 8 to 14, state police said. 

Troop C serves the towns of Ashford, Ellington, Mansfield, Somers, Stafford, Tolland, Union, Vernon and Willington.

From now until Dec. 14, gifts and monetary donations will also be accepted at the Troop C barracks on Route 74 in Tolland and at the Human Services office in the Hicks Municipal Center. 

For additional information, call the Tolland Resident Trooper’s office at 875-8911; Troop C at 896-3200; or Tolland Youth Services at 871-3612 or 871-3648.


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