Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents from police log books (a.k.a. blotters) in our communities.

PUBLIC SAFETY FOOTRACE

Who’s faster … a firefighter or a police officer? Sandwich firefighter Dan Eldridge recently put that question to the test and captured it all in an entertaining video that he posted to his TikTok account, @handymandan5. In the video, Firefighter Jason Shell is pitted against Officer Nathan Silva in a race that’s worth watching. “We’re setting up a police fire foot pursuit chase,” Eldridge says in the video. “Jason, he’s our track star athlete... not really, but he was a division baseball player, so we nominated him.

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