4 Dallas Post Dallas, PA Thursday, July 4, 2002 Safe kids (continued from page 1) tremely difficult as their fingers are so small. Digital fingerprints are much clearer, cleaner and faster. The agents also provided information to parents on preventing child abduction and collecting DNA materi- al from their kids. “As much as the Secret Service cares about your stolen checks, we care more about your children,” said Annette Grosshans, Staff Support Coordinator of : ‘the '' Secret ' Service Forensic Services Division. “The big thing is making parents more aware. Everybody thinks my house won't burn down, my kids won't go missing.” Arlene Snyder of Dallas said when she took her 10- year-old to have finger- printing done years ago, it was unusual. “People did- n't even think of it then. What do I need my child fingerprinted for?” was the attitude said Snyder. “But now, you're picking up the paper, they are walking into your house and taking them out of bed. Every parent ought to do this. They should.” No information was col- lected or retained from the children; parents received the only copy of the data to take home and store. sc RNIN Community Photo Albunr Stephanie Cy=s bulski, age 5,5 of Dallas, = makes friends with K-9 Ni- tro, who is certified in narcotics dex tection, at the | Safe Kids Day: dl Veteran's Af= fairs Police K- 9 Division and Nitro are now working to- wards certifi- cation in ex- ¢ plosives detec- tion. First Lieutenant Dennis Lee and Captain Chris Lamoreaux, Jackson Township Ambulance EMTs, give 6-year-old Johnny Yenchak a test drive on the backboard. Tips from the experts According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's National Crime Infor- mation Center, there were 840,279 missing-person entries (adults and juveniles) in the year 2001 and 85 to 90 percent of these were children. A good head and shoulders photo- graph of a missing child is the most valuable resource a parent can pro- vide law enforcement should a child go missing, but a picture isn't the only tool that can be used in identi- fying a missing child. “If a child has been missing for five or 10 years, a picture is not going to identify them,” said Kristen Hazen- stab, of the Secret Service Forensic Services Division. The Secret Service, working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), start- ed the Children’s Identification Sys- tem and participates in Operation Safe Kids providing parents with a photograph and fingerprints of their child. Over 25,000 kids have been processed. More information can be found on the NCMEC web site at www.miss- ingkids.com or call them at 1-800- THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678). i AOR Far i FOAL TO OR The Life Flight helicopter made an impressive entrance at the Safe Kids Day in Jackson Township. From left to right, the hosts of the event; Jackson Township Chief of Police Jerry Leedock; Dan Hunsinger, president of the Back Mountain Police Association; Ed Chesnovitch, Jackson Township Crime Watch Coordinator; Sergeant Scott Davis of the Jackson Township Police Department; Jef- fery Malak, Jackson Township solicitor; and Jackson Township supervisor's John J. Wilkes, Al Fox and Andrew Kasko. Above, Lehman Township Assis- tant Chief Sev Newberry and Daren, the DARE lion, showed up at Safe Kids Day. DARE stands for Drug Abuse Re- sistance Educa- tion and it is taught by police officers on school campuses. Danielle Ide, an eighth grade student at Lake-Lehman, paints Stephanie Cybulski’s face. Young Jake Blaski now knows what he wants & to be when he grows up. Jake's mom, Denise, looks on as Jake checks out the Life Flight he- ; Post PHOTOS/ELIZABETH ANDERSON licopter.
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