NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- It's the season of giving and the NYPD had a special surprise Wednesday for one officer's son.
Aidan Riley, 16, has always looked up to his dad -- an officer in the Midtown North Precinct -- and now he can ride around in his own version of an NYPD cruiser. It fits around his wheelchair and is complete with flashing lights, a siren and his name on the side next to his father's badge number.
"Well, you saw the smile on his face. I can't put it into words what it means," said Officer Merritt Riley.
Riley's son was born with cerebral palsy. Now, he has maybe the coolest set of wheels in the city.
"It's percfect. It's perfect for what he enjoys, for what he likes," Riley said. "I tried to envision it the past couple of days but I never could envision what it turned out to be."
Vartan Khachadurian, director of the NYPD Fleet Services Division, says he and his team built the car over two months and it was all worth it.
"We felt like we were supporting one of our own and it just made the project one of the most fantastic projects we were ever able to do at Fleet Services," Cacciatore said. "It was probably the greatest gift I could have ever imagined."
The NYPD has a lot of special operations going on but, on this one NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill said "the full talents of NYPD members have been put to the test." It involved getting together some fiber glass, some parts from decommissioned police cruisers and resulted in one of the widest smiles you'll see this holiday season.
Aidan and his family had applied to an organization named Magic Wheelchair, which provides wheelchair costumes for kids across the country. They recruited the NYPD Fleet Services Division to help out.