Teens Keep Turning to Alcoholic Beverages
from The Topeka Capital-Journal
 When a panel of three teenagers, a Shawnee County, Kan., sheriff's lieutenant and Topeka Police Chief Ron Miller discussed the dangers of underage drinking at an April town hall meeting, they weren't necessarily addressing the youths in the crowd of 70 plus. Lynn Smith, youth coordinator for Safe Streets, who helped organize the event, said the purpose was to educate the community about how underage drinking can be harmful and hopefully help stop the growing epidemic where it starts. More
Keeping Children Safe Near Water
from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
In South Florida, where water lurks behind every fence and children drown far too frequently, another pool safety warning shouldn't be necessary. But the region has already had eight child drownings in 2008. Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti launched a drowning prevention campaign last month to spread awareness about the state Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act. The legislation requires that all new residential swimming pools, spas and hot tubs be equipped with a 4-foot-high barrier, a pool cover and a self-locking entrance or alarms on doors and windows leading to the pool. More
Device Keeps Track of Loved Ones Who Wander
from the Hampton Roads Daily Press
The Newport News Sheriff's Department in Virginia recently updated equipment for its Project Lifesaver, a program that provides small tracking devices for adults and children with diagnosed medical conditions that put them in danger of getting lost or taken advantage of. Earlier this month the Newport News Sheriff's Department received a $36,000 grant from the Riverside Health System Foundation to update the equipment and expand the program to help more people. More
Inmates Help Build Jail’s Kitchen
from the Itawamba County Times
Much of the Itawamba, Miss., County Jail kitchen’s construction thus far — which has just entered the roofing stage — has been performed by inmates. Everything from the plumbing to concrete work has been helped along by the prisoners themselves, a move that has saved the sheriff’s department a tremendous amount of money. More
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Area Youths Get Firsthand Look at Forensic Science
from The Mount Airy News
Captain Ricky Buchanan from the professional standards division of the Durham County Sheriff's office in North Carolina, Durward Matheny, a forensic documents examiner and former State Bureau of Investigation agent, and Jo Lynn Snow helped a 1988 crime case from Durham County come alive for students at Surry Community College's Technology Camp in Dobson, N.C. More
Top Drugs on Street Now Prescriptions
from the Florida Times-Union
Law enforcement and drug control officials have seen prescriptions transition from medicine-cabinet fixtures to street regulars in the past five years, supplanting cocaine and heroin in street dealers' inventories. Jacksonville, Fla., Sheriff's Office Division Chief John Hartley followed the flow of prescription drugs in the First Coast for a decade as a narcotics unit supervisor. He estimated upward of 70 percent of all illegal drugs sold in Jacksonville are prescriptions. More
Cute, Cuddly, Fighting Machine
from KLEW-TV
The Asotin County, Idaho, Sheriff's drug dog is the cutest crime fighter in the valley. Winston's been a member of the sheriff's office force since last September, when he was rescued from a Los Angeles shelter. Today Deputy Robert Breland hid marijuana in Asotin City Park. Winston easily sniffed out the drugs. This wonder dog is prepared for the call of duty 24 hours a day. More
Sheriff Launches 'ICE' Your Phone Campaign
from Fort Myers Florida Weekly
The Lee County Sheriff's Office wants to get the word out about ICE. ICE, an acronym for In Case of Emergency, is a contact one would put in their cell phone so emergency workers know who to contact in case of an emergency. ICE was started in London in 2005, in an effort to get people to list their emergency contacts in their cell phone under the label ICE. More
Supervisors Approve a Reverse 911 Plan
from the Ventura County Star
The Ventura County, Calif., Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Tuesday the Sheriff's Department establishing a Reverse 911 system that will alert residents via phone about emergencies in the area. Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks said after the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the fires in Ventura County in 2003, the Board of Supervisors expressed interest in improving public notification systems. More
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