Safety Law News for 7/11/14

  •  School resource officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, make up the 22nd class of law enforcement officers that have graduated from the 40-hour program on dealing with a person with mental illness in a crisis.  The crisis intervention training is taught by the Wilmington Chapter of the National Alliance of Mental Illness.
  •  A Hawkins County, Tennessee program aimed at fifth-graders seeks to deter children from drugs, as well as help them deal with a family member’s addiction.  School resource officers teach the class one day a week for 10 weeks to every fifth-grader in the county school system.