Bainbridge Island Police Chief Matthew Hamner and his fellow officers near the end of their leg during the recent Special Olympics Washington Law Enforcement Torch Run.

This year’s Kitsap County Law Enforcement Torch Run was Thursday, May 31, and runners carried the Special Olympics Torch, known as the “Flame of Hope,” during a running-and-boating relay across Kitsap County and a portion of the Key Peninsula and across the Tacoma Narrows.

In addition to Bainbridge, other agencies participating in the Kitsap run included the police departments from Bremerton, Port Orchard, Poulsbo and Suquamish, and also boasted runners from the Kitsap County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, Naval Criminal Investigative Service (Northwest Field Office), and Washington State Patrol, District 8.

Bainbridge police started the Law Enforcement Torch Run from their headquarters building in downtown Winslow, and handed over the torch after crossing Agate Passage Bridge to Suquamish police at the Chiquiti Fireworks stand on Suquamish Way NE.

(Kurt Nickel photo)