Attention Police Officers,     The next Ontario D.A.R.E. Officer Training ( DOT) is scheduled for April 26th to May 7th , at the Ontario Police College, Aylmer, Ontario.

If your Police Service is considering training a new officer or upgrading a current DARE Officer to the new Middle School curriculum ( new as of summer 09), now is the time to contact the course Training Facilitator,  Harry Lawrenson, DARE Training Centre.  Please call 705-434-1939,  extension 3956  to enroll in tihis training.

 The D.A.R.E. curriculum is designed to be taught by police officers whose training and experience gave them the background needed to answer the sophisticated questions often posed by young students about drugs and crime. Prior to entering the D.A.R.E. program, officers undergo 80 hours of special training in areas such as child development, classroom management, teaching techniques, and communication skills. 40 hours of additional training are provided to D.A.R.E. instructors to prepare them to teach the high school curriculum.

The project has a nice balance of legacy development from well-known coders such as Andrew Eddie (who pioneered Mambo's early success) to some young guns like Johan Janssens and Louis Landry. This dynamic trio has been further strengthening the project by bringing in new talent. In open source development people joke about the 'bus' factor. Projects which don't have coding 'spread' are considered less sound should their single lead developer get hit by a bus.