Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association

After several discouraging incidents involving police officers around our country, Cindy Vancil-Haxel felt the need to do something to show officers in Quincy that they are appreciated. What she did was begin a "We Back the Blue" campaign.

  “Spare Change for Real Change” for Special Olympics Illinois will be held statewide on Friday, July 20, 2012,  the 44th anniversary of the beginning of Special Olympics. What is "Spare Change for Real Change?"   Well the Quincy Police Department personnel and volunteers from the Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association will be at the intersections of 18th and State and 24th and Harris