Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run
The mission of the Law Enforcement Torch Run® (LETR) is to raise awareness and funds for the Special Olympics movement.
Special Olympics provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. This gives them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
The Modesto Police Department/Stanislaus County Team carried the torch during the 2018 Special Olympics Northern California Law Enforcement Torch Run, in June 2018.
Photos courtesy of Modesto Police Department.
From the Special Olympics website: The Final Leg team carries the torch throughout California en route to the Opening Ceremony of the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles.
From the Special Olympics website: Law enforcement officers have been raising awareness and funds for Special Olympics for over 35 years.
An article about the Special Olympics torch taking a run through Stanislaus. Courtesy of Turlock Journal.
