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D.A.R.E. Program Returning to Borough Schools
NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck Police Department and Board of Education are bringing back the DARE program starting next school year. “We’re not immune to the problems facing the state and the country, especially as it relates to opioids,” Police Chief Steven Hunt said....
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24 Police Officers Graduate from D.A.R.E. Program
From left to right: Bridgeport Capt. Porter with School Resource Officers Staples, Cascante and Orlich. The three graduates join Bridgeport, Conn., police ranks certified in D.A.R.E. training. Twenty-four new officers graduated from the Drug Abuse Resistance...
Watertown Police Department: D.A.R.E. Program Reinstituted
Chief of Police John Gavallas (left) stands with Officer Jeff Desena, SRO at Watertown High School, who will teach the revitalized D.A.R.E. program to sixth graders at Swift Middle School this year. (Perugini photo). WATERTOWN — The Watertown Police Department has...
Mass K2 Overdose Issue on Minds of Officers During D.A.R.E. Graduation
Several officers and troopers from around Connecticut graduated from the state police D.A.R.E. training program on Friday [August 17, 2018]. Thirty-seven officers graduated from the D.A.R.E. program Friday and the men and women will be tasked with teaching children...
Berlin Students Shop with Police to Help Families in Need
Several families in town will have a better holiday season this year thanks to fifth graders and the Berlin Police Department. Earlier this month, three elementary school students were chosen through a lottery system to accompany officers on a trip to the toy store to buy gifts for families in need. The event, in its second year, is part of the D.A.R.E. program for fifth graders. The students and their parents, as well as some siblings, helped officers shop for 11 families at the Toys R’ Us on the Berlin Turnpike.
D.A.R.E. Graduation Held at Norwalk Concert Hall
More than 1,000 fifth-grade students from Norwalk’s 11 elementary schools filled the Norwalk Concert Hall Wednesday morning to celebrate their D.A.R.E. graduation. D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a curriculum that has been sponsored by the Norwalk...
Kelly Middle Students Rally Against Drugs
Eighth-graders at Kelly Middle School got a kick-start to their Monday morning by joining three large, furry friends at a loud anti-drug rally in the school’s auditorium. The special guests at the Red Ribbon Week rally included Chester, the Young Marines puppy bulldog mascot, D.A.R.E. mascot Daren the Lion, and Hunter, the mascot of the New England Black Wolves professional lacrosse team, based at Mohegan Sun.
D.A.R.E. Program Returns
A revamped D.A.R.E. program will return to North Haven public schools, but this program will go beyond teaching to just say no. Previously, the program targeted fifth-grade students, but this one will be presented at North Haven Middle School, to a population that...
D.A.R.E. students rally against drugs, violence
Norwich fifth-grade students make noise during the annual Red Ribbon Rally Thursday at Norwich Free Academy. Aaron Flaum/NorwichBulletin.com A Norwich police officer wounded in the line of duty urged students not to give up and make the right choices when life gets...
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TFC Richard J Perreault III (Detective)
New Hampshire State Police
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State D.A.R.E. Coordinator
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Connecticut State Police
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Phone: (203) 427-2008
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Thomas M. Cirillo
Meriden Police Department, D.A.R.E. Unit
Phone: (203) 630-6276
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