WILMINGTON, NC (2008-02-19) The Burgaw Police Department is launching a program to check up on senior citizens.
The R U OK program will ask seniors who live alone or with disabilities to voluntarily call the police department once a day Monday through Friday. If they don't call, the police department will call them to make sure they're OK.
Police Chief Wayne Briley launched the project.
"We'll use this same listing for folks if we have another storm coming in. We can use it as a quick list to call these folks and say, Hey, look, you been watching TV? You know the storm is coming in?"
Briley says the Burgaw Police Department is accepting requests to be a part of R U OK. He says he hopes to start receiving calls by the beginning of next month.
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