Captain Dennis Santos, Commanding Officer, 1st Precinct VB Police Department, addressed New Castle Elementary School fourth graders at their D.A.R.E. Graduation.
Santos spoke to the students about how the D.A.R.E. strategies will benefit them. He also noted how impressed he was with the emphasis the New Castle Elementary students gave in saying “no” to him in a role-playing exercise where he pretended to be a drug dealer.
The DARE program was established in Virginia in 1985. Virginia Beach is one of the few cities in Hampton Roads that continues to offer this program.