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By: CBS4 News, newsroom@cbs4qc.com

Some Quad City cops are helping kids learn the meaning of the holiday season.

It's the annual Kids and Cops, Holiday Shop Program.  For the last 13 years, Moline police have teamed up with Walmart to take underprivileged kids shopping.  But it's not for them.  The kids get $75 to buy their families presents. 

More than 60 Moline children got to go shopping this year.

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