Grace: Omaha officer and boy find common bond that links them (OS worked with Officer Bahr)

When I retired I was a uniformed civilian Information Service Technician for OPD. Mike and I worked behind the same bullet proof glass at the front desk window in the office. I did many of the same duties. Similar to a physicians assistant with a doctor. He is one great officer and human being. I think that comes out in the article.

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http://www.omaha.com/columnists/grace-omaha-officer-and-boy-find-common-bond-that-links/article_4e23f9be-9923-5bfc-b335-e9ae96e87ff4.html




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Alex O’Kane, 7, outside Omaha Police Headquarters with Omaha Police Officer Michael Bahr, who recently freed Alex from a set of enticing handcuffs.


POSTED: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2014 12:30 AM
By Erin Grace / World-Herald columnist

Once there lived a boy named Alex O’Kane.

Alex was a good boy, but, like a lot of 7-year-olds, he was very curious.

So a few weeks ago, when he saw a pair of shiny metal handcuffs lying there, just lying there, begging to be touched, practically screaming to be flicked open and clicked shut on his right wrist, well, what’s a curious 7-year-old to do?

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Once there lived a police officer named Mike Bahr.

FULL story at link. My old office window is in the photo below.



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Alex O’Kane and Police Officer Michael Bahr exchange gifts at Omaha Police Headquarters last week. Alex gave Bahr a police-themed Christmas tree ornament, and his new police buddy gave Alex some police stickers and a patch from Bahr’s bomb squad uniform.




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The two police uniform patches Bahr has given Alex: one, at far left, that Bahr wore to fellow Police Officer Jimmy Wilson Jr.’s funeral in 1995, and the one he gave to Alex last week.