Meet the smallest member of the Houston Police Department

The Houston Police Department has made sure that a six-year-old girl fighting cancer has been able to live out one of her biggest dreams: serving as a Houston cop. Khyrstin Andrews told her mother that she wanted to be a police officer and pull someone over for speeding. She ended up joining both HPD and Texas Department of Public Safety as an honorary member of the force. According to the Facebook page that her mother runs, Kyssi is currently undergoing a particular rough round of chemotherapy to fight a rare form of kidney cancer that she was diagnosed with in early 2012. She has over 185,000 fans on Facebook already cheering her on in the fight. less The Houston Police Department has made sure that a six-year-old girl fighting cancer has been able to live out one of her biggest dreams: serving as a Houston cop. Khyrstin Andrews told her mother that she ... more Photo: Houston Police Department Photo: Houston Police Department Image 1 of / 32 Caption Close Meet the smallest member of the Houston Police Department 1 / 32 Back to Gallery

The Houston Police Department has made sure that a six-year-old girl fighting a scary form of cancer has been able to live out one of her biggest dreams: serving as a Houston cop.

Khyrstin Andrews told her mother Marla Jones, 41, that she wanted to be a police officer and pull someone over for speeding.

Andrews, who also goes by Kyssi, has been a big part of the police force for a few months now.

She attends the same church as a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper and voiced her interest in law enforcement. A few calls were made and she was given HPD and Texas Department of Public Safety uniforms just her size, including hats, boots, belts, and even spurs. For a devoted Hello Kitty fanatic, the new uniform suited her just fine.

Then came visits with HPD’s mounted patrols and other experiences. Smiling Kyssi finally got to “pull over” a speeder with a DPS officer. She’s even ridden on a DPS helicopter.

Chief of Police Charles A. McClelland, Jr. even made her an honorary Houston police officer in July. She received DPS honors in October, becoming an honorary state trooper. She's been known to suit up and work parking lot security at her church too.

Jones said Wednesday that Kyssi is currently undergoing a particular rough round of chemotherapy to fight a rare form of kidney cancer that she was diagnosed with in early 2012. That cancer has spread to her lungs. Kyssi has over 185,000 fans on her Facebook page already cheering her on in the fight.

Last month she also got to visit Governor Rick Perry’s office and sit in his chair. No word yet on if she could soon be appointed governor of Texas for a day.

“The way the departments came together as one unit to help Kyssi is just amazing,” says Jones, who is trying to spread the word about pediatric cancer. She wishes that the month set aside for the cause, September, could get more publicity.

“October is breast cancer awareness month and the whole world turns pink for it. Gold is the color for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and I would love the world to turn gold for one month, too,” Jones says.

When this special month comes there is little attention of it, she says. Jones is also committed to forming a support system for single mothers like herself that our parents to children fighting cancer.

Kyssi’s older siblings are in awe of how Kyssi deals with her treatments, Jones says. Kyssi is surviving with one kidney and two partial lungs. Right now doctors at M.D. Anderson in the Texas Medical Center are throwing anything they can at Kyssi’s cancer, she says.

It’s keeping her smiling that is her mother’s job.