Boy's lost Christmas gift delivered by WA cops
A police officer has made a little boy’s Christmas dreams come true, returning a present that was found on the side of a highway in WA’s Pilbara region.
A Good Samaritan handed the wrapped Christmas gift into Roebourne Police on Tuesday, with just a first name written on the present and the tag ‘from uncle’.
Luckily for the little boy, the senior constable at the station remembered a little boy with the same name receiving a police award earlier in the year and decided to track him down.
"I hunted through a heap of the old archive records and found this kid's surname and through a bit of searching around got an address," Snr Con Jeremy Dickenson told the ABC.
Rather than risk the present getting lost for a second time, Snr con Dickenson decided to deliver the gift himself.
"He was just absolutely rapt," he said.
"I think he knew, his uncle must have said something to him, he knew he had a present missing.
"So as soon as we turned up with his big present he was all grins, he was just very happy.”
Roebourne Police thanked the man who handed the present in, known only as Mr Miles.
