From right to left: Bob Vallette, Sharon Borthewick, Farmington Police Chief Jack Peck, and Arnold Borthewick chat over coffee Thursday as part of a new Farmington Police Department outreach program, Coffee with a Cop.

Members of the Hawthorne, California, police department, with coffee in hand, are featured on the Coffee with a Cop Facebook page. The department started the program in 2011, and it’s taken off across the country. It’s debut in Farmington Thursday drew a steady crowd.

Farmington Police Chief Jack Peck exchanges business cards with Fulton Butler, a former Wiscassett police chief and owner of Justa Alpaca Farm in Farmington, at Coffee with a Cop Thursday morning.

Oakland police officers sit for coffee and conversation with area residents last March at the Early Bird restaurant, Oakland’s first Coffee with a Cop. From left are, Bob Madore, of Augusta; Detective Tracey Frost, the department’s school resource officer; Colby College student Sergio Madrigal, of California; and Officer Todd Burbank. Police Capt. Rick Stubbert said Thursday the department has had two sessions and hopes to have another one soon. The program, started by a California police department, has taken off across the country.