President Obama is meeting with a group of law enforcement officials on Monday in the wake of last week’s deadly sniper attack on officers in Dallas.

Obama dropped into a meeting previously organized by Vice President Biden in order to talk about “the challenging job that police officers across the country have,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.

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“He’s quite interested in making sure that dialogue continues.”

Obama has scrambled his schedule in response to the killing Thursday night of five officers in Dallas during a protest march against the fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota last week.

He returned from Europe one day early and will travel to Dallas on Tuesday to speak at a memorial service for the victims.

The president also plans to organize a meeting Wednesday at the White House with law enforcement officials, activists, academics, civil rights leaders and local political leaders to discuss criminal justice reform.

Obama will push them to find ways “to try and further the dialogue and to identify specific solutions to mend the bonds of trust that have frayed in so many communities” between residents and law enforcement, Earnest said.

Jim Pasco, the executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, is attending Monday's meeting and has urged Obama to make a “unifying speech that recognizes the grieving of all communities,” he told the Wall Street Journal.

“Police officers are there to protect the sanctity of life, and that’s all lives.”

He’s also planning to press for hate-crimes protections for law enforcement officers who are attacked.