Via ABC:
While most kids are getting back to school, 9-year-old Colin Hayward Toland is getting ready for an even more exciting change – his first day as honorary police officer with the Ithaca, New York, Police Department.
It is a fitting job for Colin, who will be sworn in September 12, four days after he starts fourth grade. Although he enjoys spending his time playing Minecraft and building Lego structures, he also been fighting against a bad guy called ependymoma — a rare form of malignant brain tumor — since the age of two.
While undergoing treatment this summer, Colin expressed interest in working for the police. He initially suggested he could be a receptionist, because he likes coffee but is “not so good at stopping crime,” his mother, Tamiko Toland, told ABC News.
“Have they ever hired a cop who has a brain tumor?” Toland remembers Colin asking. He then resolved to become the first, she said.
HT: Twitchy