PR03-027

Date:

October 21, 2003

 
Fraternal Order of Police Presents Check To
Sheriff Barrett For Gang Resistance
Funding At Local School
 

The Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 64 will present a check to Fulton County Sheriff Jacquelyn H. Barrett in the amount of $2,320.50 to fund the national Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program at Jean Childs Young Middle School in Southwest Atlanta.

The presentation will take place in the school’s media center on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 9:00 a.m. Presenting the award at tomorrow’s ceremony will be Lodge 64 President Captain Howard Billingslea of the Fulton County Marshals Office. Also present at tomorrow’s event will be former G.R.E.A.T. student Richard McDaniel who participated in G.R.E.A.T while at Young Middle School in 1997. Mr. McDaniel is now a freshman at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Mr. McDaniel plans to visit with seventh grade students tomorrow and share with them his experiences with G.R.E.A.T.

Gang Resistance Education and Training is taught by specially trained deputies of the Fulton County. The program is sponsored by the United States Office of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. G.R.E.A.T. was founding in 1991 in Phoenix, Arizona by the Phoenix Police Office and middle school principal. The program is now being taught nationwide in forty-eight (48) states. The G.R.E.A.T. program has been credited with improving the lives of thousands of children by teaching them to be productive, law-abiding citizens.

Jean Childs Young Middle School is located at 3116 Benjamin E. Mays Drive, SW.

For more information, please contact Lieutenant Clarence Huber at (404) 730-4148. Lieutenant Huber can also be reached on his digital pager at (404) 742-6798.