Law Enforcement Track: Enhancing the Role of Law Enforcement: Intervening in Rx Abuse and Protecting Children

1. Law Enforcement Track
Enhancing the Role of Law Enforcement:
Intervening in Rx Abuse &
Protecting Children
Presenters:
• Harry Earle, Chief of Police, Gloucester Township (NJ)
Police Department
• Susan Brown, Executive Director, California Drug
Endangered Children Training and Advocacy Center
Moderator: J. Kevin Massey, MS, Program Administrator,
Division of Public Health, Delaware Department of Health and
Social Services, and Board Member, Rx Summit National
Advisory Board

2. Disclosures
Harry Earle, Susan Brown and Kevin J. Massey, MS, have
disclosed no relevant, real, or apparent personal or
professional financial relationships with proprietary
entities that produce healthcare goods and services.

3. Disclosures
• All planners/managers hereby state that they or their
spouse/life partner do not have any financial
relationships or relationships to products or devices
with any commercial interest related to the content of
this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.
• The following planners/managers have the following to
disclose:
– Kelly Clark – Employment: Publicis Touchpoint Solutions;
Consultant: Grunenthal US
– Robert DuPont – Employment: Bensinger, DuPont &
Associates-Prescription Drug Research Center
– Carla Saunders – Speaker’s bureau: Abbott Nutrition

4. Learning Objectives
1. Explain the benefits of law enforcement intervention
in substance abuse victimization.
2. Outline a law enforcement program for identifying
early social disorder issues that contribute to
substance abuse and criminal activity.
3. Identify common obstacles and mistakes in handling
child abuse cases, based on three case studies.
4. Describe how law enforcement and social service
agencies can work together to save drug-endangered
children from mistreatment, neglect and death.

5. Enhancing the Role of Law Enforcement:
Intervening in Rx Abuse and Protecting
Children

6. DISCLOSURE---------

7. GOALS
Explain the benefits of law enforcement
intervention in substance abuse victimization.
Outline a law enforcement program for
identifying early social disorder issues that
contribute to substance abuse and criminal
activity.

8. THE COMMUNITY OF GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP

9. PEOPLE ARE DYING – AND NOT JUST FROM CRASHES
Year Deaths
2010 6
2011 9
2012 5
2013 9
2014 14
CAMDEN COUNTY –
2014/37 2013/31
GLOUCESTER TWP – 2014/2 2013/1

10. AN EPIDEMIC

11. PROTECT AND SERVE - TRADITIONS IN POLICING
METROPOLITAN
POLICE ACT
1829
PEELIAN
PRINCIPLES

12. FACING YOUTH TODAY

13. WHEN I GROW UP…..I WANT TO BE…..

14. INVESTING IN THE FUTURE
Investigations Bureau
Cmdr.
JIU
JIU Det.
JIU Det.
SRO
(High School)
SRO
(High School)
Juvenile
Unit
JU Sgt.
JU Det.
JU Det.
JU Det.
Elem.
SRO
Elem.
SRO
SRO
(High School)
SRO
(High School)
Social
Worker

15. A BROKEN WINDOW THAT MUST BE REPAIRED

16. COMMUNITY POLICING
Community policing is a
philosophy that promotes
organizational strategies,
which support the
systematic use of
partnerships and problem-
solving techniques, to
proactively address the
immediate conditions that
give rise to public safety
issues such as crime, social
disorder, and fear of
crime.
SOCIAL DISORDER

17. LAW ENFORCEMENT’S NEW VISION

18. LAW ENFORCEMENTS NEW VISION

19. 60%
Arrested By
Age 24 1
40%
3 or More
Convictions
Age 24 1
1Source: Fight Crime Invest In Kids

20. COMMUNITY ACTION STEPS ENGAGING YOUTH

21. IT’S JUST A RUNAWAY
http://archives.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol12N3/Runaway.html2

22. RUNAWAY/THROWAWAY DANGERS
GTPD Missing Persons Action Safety Review
239 Missing Persons Cases
2008-2011
Threat of Suicide – Most
Common
Domestic Violence #1 Call
For Service

23. SILENCE

24. THE RETURN OF THE JUVENILE – CASE OVER?

25. BRING IT ALL TOGETHER

26. COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH
JU HUDDLE
Commanders
Intelligence Unit
Every Missing
Person/Juvenile
Contact
Comprehensive Review

27. FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER

28. PROJECT CASEY - SUCCESS
2008-2011
30%
2011-2014
5%
Substance abuse and delinquency often share the
common factors of school and family problems,
negative peer groups, lack of neighborhood social
controls, and a history of sexual abuse.
Source: National Criminal Justice Reference Service: https://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/jjbul9712-1/substan.html

29. SAVE INITATIVES

30. WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A DRUG FUELED ROBBER

31. SAVE ADVOCATE
13 CLIENTS 8 CLIENTS
47%
REMAINING 20?

32. SAVE ADVOCATE – CASE STUDY
Discharged
9/18/14
CLIENT # 8

33. SAVING LIVES
80 Units
April
2014

34. 130
126
97%
SAVING LIVES

35. SAVE - DRUG DISPOSAL

36. GTPD AND THE COMMUNITY IN ACTION

37. REDIFINING PROTECT AND SERVE

38. QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION