When Ship Bottom Patrolman Jacob Stuerze saw a pattern emerge involving vulnerable residents, he didn’t build just a program to check in with them, but relationships within the community that are priceless on both ends.

“It’s phenomenal (the program) and the town residents absolutely love it,” Stuerze’s supervisor, Sgt. Kyle Jones, said recently. “It’s just having that extra sense of security that we’re checking on them.”