Being an officer of the law is a dangerous yet necessary job. Unfortunately not all our men and women in uniform get to come home at night.
Teresa Canalejo knows this all too well.
In 1992, her son, Officer Osvaldo Canalejo, died in a car accident. He was responding to an emergency call and had served five years with the Miami Police Department.
Her husband passed away four years ago.
So her son's brothers and sisters in blue decided to pay her a visit this year.
"This lady is here alone. She's got no one, she's a widow," Miami police officer Freddie Cruz says in the video below. "But we wanted to let her know that she does have over 1,000 sons and daughters in the Miami Police Department."
Twenty-four years after Osvaldo's death, a group of Miami Police Academy cadets, about to graduate into the force, swarmed her home and surprised her with a makeover.
A makeover to her property, that is.
They dug up her yard to landscape it, along with making a number of general repairs to her house, from painting it to lining the yard with new plants.
“It’s an honor, to be honest. To come out here and serve the communities is what police should be about,” says cadet Robert Novak.
“It is the way to show that it doesn’t take blood to be family,” says cadet Lauren Garcia.
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