Ariz. siblings honor police around the country with thank you cards

By Police1 Staff

AVONDALE, Ariz. — When two siblings started collecting police patches, they decided to thank the officers who sent them with hand-written cards.

Eight-year old Tayler Benedetto and her six-year-old brother, Caleb, have written over 2,000 thank you cards to police around the country, KPHO reported.

“‘My hero’ would be on the front, and then we would write something on the back,” Tayler told KPHO. “I write ‘Thank you for your service.’”

When the siblings started collecting patches, their father set up a Facebook page to share their project. Patches started pouring in from departments all over the world.

“We just didn’t want to collect them, we wanted to do more, so my dad said, ‘Why don’t we just send them thank you cards?” Tayler told the news site.

The project is their way to show appreciation for law enforcement and what they do every single day, Leonard Benedetto, the siblings’ father, told KPHO.

Police have been grateful for the cards.

“The officers really take these to heart,” Glendale Police Chief Debora Black told KPHO. “They appreciate them so much. Many officers carry them around with them.”

Eventually the siblings want to make the patches into a quilt.

Their Facebook page has over 1,000 likes and hundreds of pictures of their cards being received by officers all over the country.