A ten-year-old Texas boy with terminal most cancers has been sworn in as an honorary police officer in Roswell, New Mexico.
At a ceremony on March 4, the Roswell Police Division (RPD) hosted a particular "swearing in" ceremony for Davarjaye "DJ" Daniel from Houston, Texas, wherein he turned an honorary member of the division.
Throughout the ceremony, Daniel was additionally sworn in as an honorary member by the Chaves County Sheriff's Workplace, New Mexico State Police, New Mexico Mounted Patrol, Hagerman Police Division and Chaves County Detention Middle, the RPD mentioned.
The boy's household mentioned he has dreamed of turning into a police officer all his life—and now legislation enforcement businesses are making that dream a actuality.
In keeping with the boy's father, Theodis Daniel, the 10-year-old is now a member of 289 businesses throughout the nation, the Roswell Every day Document reported.
Daniel was identified with metastatic anaplastic ependymoma most cancers in 2018. Anaplastic ependymoma is a sort of ependymoma—a really uncommon kind of tumor that begins within the mind or spinal wire, based on Cedars-Sinai Medical Middle. These tumors happen in each kids and adults, they usually can develop in a short time.
Daniel has undergone 11 surgical procedures and several other different procedures however the household has been advised that the most cancers is incurable.
"They are not going to do any extra radiation or chemo, no nothing, he is not going to get any of that," Theodis Daniel advised the Document. "The one factor that was talked about at first was to hope."
The ten-year-old arrived at Roswell Police Division on March 4 in a cowboy hat and an RPD uniform tailor-made only for him.
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The boy greeted division employees and members of the neighborhood earlier than Chief Philip Smith recited the oath of workplace, which Daniel repeated, alongside his brother and sister—aged 10 and 11 respectively—who have been additionally sworn in as honorary members.
The chief then pinned an RPD badge on his uniform earlier than Sheriff Mike Herrington gave him a specially-made bulletproof vest.
"DJ's dream has been to develop into a police officer, and with the assistance of his mother and father and a large number of legislation enforcement businesses in quite a few states, he's doing that the easiest way he can many occasions over," the RPD mentioned in a Fb publish.
"RPD is grateful to have been in a position to make this a special occasion for DJ."
Throughout the journey to Roswell, the household visited a number of points of interest, together with the Robert H. Goddard Planetarium—the place Daniel was sworn in as an honorary "Males in Black" agent.
Newsweek has contacted the Roswell Police Division for remark.
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