2010 News Archive
Findley Oaks students get hip to safety
FBI, Homeland Security, JC Police & Fire share knowledge
4/29/2010
Johns Creek Police and Fire joined dozens of public safety experts from across Metro Atlanta on April 29 for "Children's Safety Day" at Findley Oaks Elementary School in Johns Creek.
The entire school day focused on the topic of safety from a child's point of view and featured demonstrations or class talks from the FBI, Secret Service (ID equipment and presidential limo), Georgia State Patrol and U.S. Army National Guard (drug interdiction helicopters), U.S. Postal Service OIG Special Agents, U.S. Postal Inspectors (Mobile Command Center), Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco (Bomb Detection Dog), U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Probation Office, Federal Protective Service (Gruff the Crime Dog), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Fulton County School Police, and Roswell Fire Department's Smoke House.
More than 760 students received a free confidential Child Identity Kit (featuring their fingerprints and photo) for their parents' safekeeping, compliments of the U.S. Secret Service's "Operation Safe Kids" program and the Atlanta chapter of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.
"Children need to know this information at a young age, obviously for their safety. But we also want them to know that if they should ever go missing, these are the federal authorities who would be involved in searching for them. It gives them reassurance and the parents appreciate the kits," said Dan Craven, head of Atlanta's FLEOA chapter.
Once a year, the association and the Secret Service sponsor this kind of comprehensive program at one Metro Atlanta school, in observance of National Missing Children's Day on May 25.
This year, they chose Findley Oaks, and parents, teachers and school administration worked for months to help coordinate a day the children wouldn't forget.