Sergeant Jeremy Davidson Conducts Vaping Presentation
Did you know that Nearly 1 of every 5 high school students and 1 of every 20 middle school students reported that they used electronic cigarettes? Did you know that e-cigarettes, sometimes referred to as “vaping” or “JUULing, contain nicotine?
Nicotine is highly addictive and can harm adolescent brain development which continues into the early to mid-20s. Using nicotine in adolescence can harm the parts of the brain that control attention, learning, mood, and impulse control.
Sergeant Jeremy Davidson of the Queen Anne’s County Office of the Sheriff conducted a vaping presentation for the teachers at Queen Anne’s High School regarding the dangers of vaping and other drug paraphernalia. We highly recommend parents talk to their children about the consequences of vaping.
The Sheriff's Office gets a new Cadet...
Please join us in welcoming the Queen Anne’s County Office of the Sheriff’s newest cadet, Benjamin Kane. Kane is an honor graduate from North Caroline High School where he was the commander of their ROTC program. Kane aspires to become a sworn deputy at our office and to serve his community. He credits his Sheriff’s Office school resource officer for informing him about the agency cadet program. Within the agency program, cadets are required to register in college level classes. Kane is currently enrolled in sociology courses at Chesapeake College. If he successfully completes the cadet program, Kane will enter the police academy as a Deputy Recruit.
For the time being, you will see Cadet Kane in our office offering a variety of administrative services, free smiles, and shadowing the officers.
Ten things you can your neighbors can do to keep your community safe
- Work with public agencies and other neighborhood-based or community-wide organizations, on solving common problems. Don’t be shy about letting them know what your community needs.
- Make sure that all the youth in the neighborhood have positive ways to spend their spare time, through organized recreation, tutoring programs, part-time work, and volunteer opportunities.
- Set up a Neighborhood Watch or a community patrol working with police. Make sure your streets and homes are well lighted.
- Build a partnership with police, focused on solving problems instead of reacting to crises. Make it possible for neighbors to report suspicious activity or crimes without fear of retaliation.
- Take advantage of “safety in numbers” to hold rallies, marches, and other group activities to show you’re determined to drive out crime and drugs.
- Clean up the neighborhood! Involve everyone; teens, children, senior citizens. Graffiti, litter, abandoned cars, and run-down buildings tell criminals that you don’t care about where you live or each other. Call the city public works department and ask for help in cleaning up.
- Ask local officials to use new ways to get criminals out of your building or neighborhood. These include enforcing anti-noise laws, housing codes, health and fire codes, anti-nuisance laws, and drug-free clauses in rental leases.
- Form a Court Watch to help support victims and witnesses and to see that criminals get fairly punished.
- Work with schools to establish drug-free, gun-free zones; work with recreation officials to do the same for parks.
- Develop and share a phone list of local organizations that can provide counseling, job training, guidance, and other services that neighbors might need.