WATCH: DuPage Sheriff's Office Makes Boy With Brain Tumor Junior Deputy

DUPAGE COUNTY, IL — When 11-year-old Drake Price left his treatment for a benign brain tumor Tuesday, the last thing he expected was to be stopped by the police.

The DuPage County Sheriff's Office surprised Drake, an aspiring police officer from Warsaw, Indiana, who has been diagnosed with a benign brain tumor, by swearing him in as the county's newest junior deputy outside at the Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center in Warrenville.

Drake raised his right hand high and nodded solemnly as Undersheriff Frank Bibbiano read his police oath, which included a promise to "help his friends and his family daily." As Drake's family looked on, he was presented with a wallet containing a a gleaming new badge during the surprise ceremony.

According to a post on the DuPage County Sheriff's Office Facebook page, one of Drake's first orders of business was to play in a SWAT vehicle and take a spin in the county's Special Operations Unit Rescue vehicle. Drake was also presented with a quilt made up of patches from police departments across the country.

Watch Drake's swearing-in ceremony below:

>> Story by Lisa Marie Farver (Patch Staff); video via YouTube, PIOatDPSO

>>Image via DuPage County Sheriff's Office Facebook page