Officer Victoria Oliver took $255 of her own money and spent it on a plane ticket for a domestic violence victim who had been getting abused for weeks.
Chris PerezWhen Victoria Oliver became a Denver Police officer, her main goal was to help people."It's what we're supposed to do," she says, while speaking withBut the Denver native and 27-year veteran of the DPD has done much more than that.
According to Oliver, Cox works in the DPD's domestic violence unit and was able to get the victim a hotel for the night, as the woman had scheduled a flight for the next day. When Oliver arrived at the hotel to pick up the woman the following day, she was with two people who said they were her friends and in good spirits.
The next day, Oliver responded back to work and got back to her regular assignments — with the first being an escort handed down by her sergeant. The person: her domestic violence victim from DIA. "They were just incredible," Oliver says."They didn't want their names out there because they called in sick to help her. And so I got all of us through TSA security — special passes for the two friends because they weren't flying — and then we got to the Frontier gate. I talked to Frontier. I said, 'Hey, I have a serious situation going on here. If we can, let's let her get on first.' And we were able to go onto the plane with her and say our goodbyes.
"I'm like, 'Not all cops [are bad],'" Oliver recalls telling her."We had those kinds of conversations. But she was such a sweet young lady who was just a victim of circumstances throughout her life. She was such a sweetheart." She helped another domestic violence victim who was stranded at the airport once and needing assistance."I got her a bus ticket," she says."She was going to Weld County. I didn't tell my command."
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