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DARE PROGRAM

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is a collaborative effort by DARE certified law enforcement officers, educators, students, parents, and the community to offer an educational program in the classroom to prevent or reduce drug abuse and violence among children and youth. The emphasis of DARE is to help students recognize and resist the many direct and subtle pressures that influence them to experiment with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, inhalants, or other drugs or to engage in violence.

The DARE program offers preventive strategies to enhance those protective factors (especially bonding to the family, school, and community) which appear to foster the development of resiliency in young people who may be at risk for substance abuse or other problem behaviors.

The Ocoee DARE program began in 1989 through a donation. To learn how you can help the DARE program in Ocoee contact Officer Jamie Byrd.

CHARLES J. BROWN

POLICE CHIEF

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Administration

Criminal Investigations

K-9 Units

Patrol

Professional Standards

Property and Evidence

Records

School Resource Officers

Traffic

646 Ocoee Commerce Parkway, Ocoee, FL 34761

(407) 905-3160

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