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Officer lends a hand

Sometimes all it takes is a helping hand and that was offered last week by an RCMP officer in Kamloops.

On Friday, a transit bus driver noticed a man in a power wheelchair who appeared to be having difficulty.

Suspecting he might be stranded, the driver notified police.

When Const. Sukhdeep Toor arrived on the scene, the man in the wheelchair said the motor on his chair had broken down. The disabled man had no family to call and no money for a cab.

Toor realized he couldn’t fit the wheelchair into his police car to take the man home.

Instead, he asked where the man lived and pushed him in the wheelchair through the snow and slush over six blocks to his residence.

“This man just needed a helping hand,” said Toor. “I was glad to help him get home safely.”



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