Boston Police Unveil 'Operation Hoodsie Cup' Ice Cream Truck

BOSTON, MA — The Boston Police Department's community outreach efforts got an upgrade Monday, with the unveiling of the force's new BPD Ice Cream Truck.

In the past five years, Boston Police have handed out more than 120,000 Hoodsie Cups through the "Operation Hoodsie Cup" community outreach program, according to the department's own estimate. The program began in 2010, and got a shiny new face in the ice cream truck unveiled Monday in Roxbury.

“If you had told me 30 years ago that the Boston Police Department would have an ice cream truck as part of its patrol force and my officers would be handing out Hoodie Cups … I would’ve said you were crazy," Commissioner William Evans said, according to a press release. "But, I absolutely love the new truck and everything this program represents. The good will it generates between my officers and our city’s young people is undeniable and nothing short of remarkable and my only regret is that I wish we had started doing this 30 years ago.”

The $89,000 truck is a comes courtesy the Boston Police Foundation. Lynnfield-based HP Hood Co. is program supporter, an donates the ice cream.