The police department, after receiving the green light from city council, will be applying for the Ohio Attorney General’s Drug Use Prevention Grant Program to help fund the DARE program in the Beavercreek City Schools for the school year 2017-18.
With the DARE program, students are accustomed to seeing police officers in the school, developing relationships with them, finding it easier to approach them, if needed. It also lessens fear of the police.
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The Beavercreek DARE program provides education to over 600 students per year. The grant money requested will cover approximately 50 percent of the salary for the nine months for the officer assigned to the program.
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