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Drug Abuse Resistance Education
School Resource Officers
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The St. John Police Department provides officers to teach D.A.R.E. and serve as School Resource Officers for Marvin Elementary, Ritenour Middle, and Ritenour High schools. D.A.R.E. classes are taught at Marvin Elementary as part of a nation-wide effort to reduce drug and alcohol abuse among children and to teach them that there are better ways to deal with conflicts than violence. D.A.R.E. was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles, California, and has been updated and revised since then. No longer is the program just an officer lecturing from a podium. Today’s D.A.R.E. program includes officer-facilitated work, discussion groups, and role-playing sessions.
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St. John Police Department also provides a School Resource Officer (SRO) at the Ritenour High School. The D.A.R.E. Officer provides SRO services to Ritenour Middle School. SRO’s are actively involved in the school. Students can participate in a Junior Police Academy, and receive instruction in some 200 subject areas.
Additionally, our D.A.R.E./SRO officers investigate criminal offenses in which the perpetrator is a juvenile as well as those in which the victim is a juvenile. D.A.R.E./SRO officers work with teachers, counselors, school administration, Division of Family Services (DFS), patrol officers, and detectives.
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See the photo gallery of D.A.R.E. Cars
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