9th Class of GCPO Summer Interns

PRESS RELEASE
July 12, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

Tomorrow (7/13), 25 Gloucester County high school students will learn what it’s like to be a bike patrol officer and why they shouldn’t take another route that could put them in prison.

The teenagers are in their second week of a month-long summer internship with the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office. This is the ninth such group in a program intended to expose young people to the law enforcement and criminal justice systems, by spending two weeks at the Gloucester County Police Academy in Deptford NJ and two weeks at the GCPO offices in Woodbury NJ.

In their final days at the academy, the teenagers will get familiar with the purposes of bicycle patrols and meet with a female New Jersey state prison inmate who is part of the state Corrections Department’s Project P.R.I.D.E. The prison education program was developed to spread awareness of the prison system in the outside community through inmates telling their life stories.

At the offices of the GCPO, the students will learn about crime scene investigations and trial procedures, tour the county jail, experience the Cooper Trauma Center in Camden where many crime victims are treated and visit the Constitution Center in Philadelphia and the Tolerance Center in New York City.