Upthegrove Completes Training

LABELLE, FL. -- Attorney General Charlie Crist this honored School Resource
Officers at the annual conference of the Florida Association of School
Resource Officers. Honored at the conference were eight law enforcement
officers who received the designation as School Resource Officer
Practitioners after completing training through the Attorney General's
Office including Auxiliary Deputy Edward Upthegrove of the Hendry County
Sheriff's Office.

Since 1988, the Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute, a unit of the
Attorney General's Office, has offered the designation of School Resource
Officer Practitioner. This designation is conferred to document an
individual's successful completion of a series of SRO training courses
offered by the institute. The officer must complete 130 hours of
juvenile-related courses from the institute or other authorized training
sources.

With the addition of the eight officers receiving the designation today, a
total of 201 School Resource Officers have been certified as practitioners.