FARMINGTON – Law enforcers are gearing up to raise money for a cause close to their hearts: Special Olympics Maine.

There’s a $19,000, 2005 Harley-Davidson motorcycle being raffled off, a roof sit, car wash, and gas pumping/window washing planned.

Each year nearly 800 members of Maine’s law enforcement community run about 900 miles carrying the Flame of Hope for Special Olympics Maine.

The state is divided into 15 sections, called “legs.” Each covers a portion of the state. The run has raised $1 million since its inception in Maine in 1995.

Farmington police officers Shane Cote and Bridgette Dellarma, Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Turcotte and State Police Trooper Matt Casavant are leading leg 13-B from Wilton to Waterville.

The torch run for the area is Thursday, June 10.

Leg leaders have scheduled law enforcers to wash vehicles at 11 a.m. Saturday at Irving’s Pro Service Station on Farmington Falls Road in Farmington, diagonally across from Farmington Police Department. The event is sponsored by Carquest. The car wash is free with donations.

Lawmen and women will sit on the roof of Dunkin Donuts on Wilton Road during a “Cops and Donuts” activity beginning at 9 a.m. People can keep them up on the roof just by putting money in the bucket.

For every $100 they collect, they’ll sit another hour.

If people miss that occasion, there’s Irving’s “Serve and Protect” beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 5, at Irving Big Stop on Wilton Road in Farmington.

Police, firefighters and emergency medical service representatives plan to pump gas and wash windows.

Irving’s plans to donate 5 cents for each gallon pumped at its stations during that weekend to Special Olympics Maine.

“We want people to show up at events,” Cote said. “We want people to run their tanks almost empty on June 5 and come to Irving’s to fill up.”

Cote has been a leg leader since 1998.

“I love interacting with the athletes,” Cote said.

Former Farmington police Chief John Rogers got him involved in the run, he said.

Raffle tickets are available from Cote, Dellarma and Farmington police secretary Rachel Verrill, and at Carquest for a 2005 Harley-Davidson Softail Classic. Only about 1,700 raffle tickets will be sold at $20 each. The drawing is Oct. 16.

T-shirts featuring the torch run are being sold for $10. Raffle tickets and T-shirts will be available during fund-raising events.

This is Dellarma’s first year as a leg leader.

She, too, enjoys interacting with the athletes.

“I like to see the way they react when they’re competing,” she said. “It makes me feel good about myself to help the athletes and its nice to see them working toward something they believe in.”