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Melrose Police Department To Host National Night Out In August

The NNO is a family-friendly event to strengthen relationships between police and the communities they serve.

The ​Melrose Police Department will host its annual National Night Out event on Tuesday, August 1 from 5-8 p.m. at the Cabbage Patch field at Melrose High School.
The ​Melrose Police Department will host its annual National Night Out event on Tuesday, August 1 from 5-8 p.m. at the Cabbage Patch field at Melrose High School. (Mike Carraggi/Patch)

MELROSE, MA — The Melrose Police Department will host its annual National Night Out (NNO) event on Tuesday, August 1 from 5-8 p.m. at the Cabbage Patch field at Melrose High School.

The NNO is a family-friendly event to strengthen relationships between police and the communities they serve, the department said in a statement.

Similar National Night Out events are planned across the region and the country over the summer. An annual initiative, communities largely hold their events on the first Tuesday in August.

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The events date back to 1984, when the National Association of Town Watch launched the first Night Out campaign in 400 communities across 23 states, according to the association's website. Last year, NNO programming spanned 16,000 communities in all 50 U.S. states.

More information about this year’s NNO in Melrose will be shared with the community as the date gets closer.

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