Press Release
Five D.A.R.E officers off to training in the United States
Bridgetown, Barbados, Monday, July 20, 2009 – The Narcotics Affairs Section of the Embassy of the United States to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, together with the U.S. State Department International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL), is sponsoring 5 participants from Antigua, Barbados, Grenada and St Lucia to attend the 22nd International Officers’ Training Conference in Orlando, Florida from July 21 – 24, 2009.
This Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) conference will have over 1,500 DARE officers, educators and school administrators in attendance. Over 40 different training workshops will be offered to participants. These include helping communities respond to the abuse of prescription and over the counter drugs; creating and maintaining a secure school atmosphere; internet crimes directed toward children; classroom management; school violence prevention; narco terrorism; cyber bullying; juvenile violence caused by alcohol; and the invisible threat of inhalant abuse.
This program responds to priorities identified during United States Attorney General Eric Holder’s visit to Barbados and is part of America’s continuing engagement with its Caribbean partners, which will be further strengthened through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative that President Obama announced at the 2009 Summit of the Americas.