Utah
Draper’s D.A.R.E. Officer Aims to Help Kids Make Smart Decisions
After years spent seeing firsthand how drugs, alcohol and violence destroyed people’s lives, their families’ lives and their communities, Green sought to focus on substance abuse prevention because, he says, arresting the same people each week wasn’t making the difference in what he wanted to accomplish as a police officer. When the opportunity arose to return to his home state and serve as a D.A.R.E. officer in Draper, he “jumped at it.”Read more . . .
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Kim Hawkes, Central Regional Director
Email: kim.hawkes@dare.org
Cell: (424) 227-0821
State D.A.R.E. Contacts
State Program Administrator
Tibby Milne
Executive Director, D.A.R.E. Utah
Utah Council for Crime Prevention
Email: tibbyuccp@aol.com
Phone: (801) 486-8691
State D.A.R.E. Officers Association President
Detective Dale Bowker
Layton City Police Department
Email: dbowker@laytoncity.org
Phone: (801) 336-3416
