{"id":20862,"date":"2021-04-14T23:06:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=20862"},"modified":"2021-04-14T23:06:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:06:36","slug":"homeless-man-gets-helping-hand-from-concerned-rcmp-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=20862","title":{"rendered":"Homeless man gets helping hand from concerned RCMP officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENFIELD:<\/strong> An observant resident notice what appeared to be a suspicious person in their neighbourhood on April 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell said members were dispatched to the area in question, a dead-end road in the Enfield area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe man was located and upon questioning by our female officer, she determined the man was actually homeless,\u201d said S\/Sgt. Bushell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt that point, the office took the man into her care, bought him a warm-up meal and fresh coffee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The member went the extra length, S\/Sgt. Bushell continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe then transported the man to the Truro homeless shelter for a safe place to stay the night,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt. Bushell praised the officer\u2014who wished not to be named&#8211;for doing what she did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe member showed great compassion for the man and demonstrated a great depth of understanding for his need at that moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] ENFIELD: An observant resident notice what appeared to be a suspicious person in their neighbourhood on April 12. East Hants RCMP S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell said members were dispatched to the area in question, a dead-end road in the Enfield area. \u201cThe man was located and upon questioning by our female officer, she determined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[196,1581,2025,14,2026,396],"class_list":["post-20862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-rcmp","tag-homeless","tag-rcmp","tag-shelter","tag-truro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}