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Looks like the drug lords might have scored a temporary win. Doesn't involve the drug testing aspect but it does involve another program that runs along side it.

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Disappeared coordinator DARE anti-drug program

Requested permission for an indefinite period
El Heraldo de Chihuahua
February 8, 2009

David Pinion

Chihuahua, Chihuahua .- The coordinator of the DARE program of the Municipal Police, Torres Luis Alberto Torres, was missing since late last year after requesting leave until January 6 and an indefinite leave, so that their tasks were assigned to other elements.

Torres Torres was responsible for the program to prevent drug use among children and young people, taken from the U.S. model Drugs Abuse Resistance Education, which in Mexico is known as Education for Resist Drug Use and Violence.

Since its inception in 2006 to date, the program in Chihuahua has been coordinated by the commander in question, who has indefinite leave, so the second police Sergio Guerrero is operationally in charge of a temporary, aided by the administrative coordinator, the licensed Yuriria Medrano Villarreal.

The municipal officer had requested vacation in December and had to hastily made to work on January 7, but instead went to apply for a permit and informed some of his colleagues, whose names are reserved for them by request themselves, which would leave the city.

The permit was obtained without pay for an indefinite, according to the municipal police throughout the area of Social Communication, without giving details.

The agents home also looks abandoned, because it took his family from the city, without knowing the destination.

DRUG PROGRAM

In Mexico, the program began in the city of Tijuana in 1990. To date, conducted in eight states under the coordination of a central office located in Mexicali, Baja California.

The state of Chihuahua was the eighth Mexican entity to join the program. In the town of Chihuahua began in February 2006, for which a group of police officers received appropriate training by nationally certified instructors and supervised by staff of DARE Mexico and kept under constant updating and training through national conferences and international.

To date, 20 instructors are responsible for maintaining the training of young children and kindergarten, primary and secondary schools. Each semester an average of 20 thousand children and young graduates of the program, and add 72 thousand students from urban and rural areas that have received the instruction to say no to drugs and violence.

Students receive instruction weekly sessions lasting between 25 minutes and an hour depending on the grade level. Instructors learn teaching techniques appropriate to the age of students. Also includes children and young people with different abilities and ethnicity Rarámuri, who made special adaptations to their dialect and translated, in the case of indigenous children.

The results of the DARE to such a short time, won the seat of Chihuahua Vll Congress, held in the capital in May 2007.

Also the effort of the officers has been recognized as the Chihuahuan instructor Carlos Mario Marquez Berzoza won the title "Best DARE Officer of the Year 2008" in Mexico. Was approved during the 25th International Congress DARE made in San Antonio, Texas, in August last year, at the hands of national and international agenda.

Successful experiences of DARE are in municipalities where there is a civil association that supports the program. In the case of Chihuahua, Chihuahua there Patronat DARE AC, composed of ten marriages are voluntary parents, members of chambers of commerce and other associations. The role of trustees is to ensure the permanence of the program even in the management changes, as well as raise funds to support the costs incurred, such as booklets that are used for teaching classes, graduation events, training for instructors DARE, among others. For its part, the municipality contributes to the salaries of the police units and maintaining them.

BIRTH

DARE is a program created in Los Angeles, California in 1983, following which the police chief's son, barely 13 years, died of an overdose. DARE is the word form of the acronym in English: Drugs Abuse Resistance Education, we call it in Mexico: Education for the use of Resist Drugs and Violence.

DARE is a preventive program, whose main objective is to eliminate or drastically slow down the consumption of snuff and illegal drugs in the students who take the full program.

DARE is by definition an apolitical and non-profit project with the long-term responsibilities and commitments between the company and the municipal government.

The principle underlying this program is very simple: attack the serious problems of drug use and violence since its inception.

The DARE program provides children and young reliable and truthful information with the intention that they supported in their own intelligence and will, be concluded that drugs and violence are harmful and detrimental to their lives and decide to move away from them.

The program is taught exclusively by municipal police officers previously selected and trained. This training is provided gradually, according to seniority and personal growth of the DARE officer, to deliver the program at different educational levels.

Another important feature of the DARE program is that every student who attends the "DARE lessons" must receive, free of charge, a copy of the workbook that is used to teach the program.


DARE is a registered trademark, the graphic image, policy and methodology of the program is strictly required at the global level, which aims to ensure quality in implementation.

This is the biggest preventive program in the world, is now taught in 58 countries on three continents.

The strange case is that the agent has disappeared without explanation after two years in charge of the most ambitious anti-drug program has been launched in the city.