Citizen's Academy Week 2

After being cancelled last week due to snow (hahahaaha) I attended Week 2 of Richland County Sheriff's Citizen Academy. Tonight we had Captain Lynn Week's from the Victim's Advocate office and Investigator Brian Metz from the Internet Crimes Division as our speakers. Both were very professional and told us about the services they provide the community. During Investigator Metzs' presentation the RCSD drug team popped in with some evidence from a bust that occured earlier in the day. They showed us a kilo of cocaine, 2 bricks of marijuana and several semi-automatic weapons that they had confiscated that day in Richland County. Kind of opened alot of people's eyes in the room to see that yes, it does happen in our town.

I was surprised to see how much the Victim's advocate office does for the victims of crimes in Richland County. They offer a wide variety of services from counseling, to court representation, food, shelter, protection and many other things. You can check out more information at http://www.rcsd.net/inv/vicassistance.htm

Investigator Metz schooled us on the Internet and told us about various cases he had worked on over the years. He provided many tips on Internet safety and provided us with an informative CD that could be used to track your child's activity on the Internet. Also RCSD is offering free Internet safety classes to anyone in the community, more info can be found her http://www.rcsd.net/media/jan09/1-8-internetsafety.html

Overall an enjoyable night again. Up next week out topics will be Internal Affairs and Civil Process...

Jason