ADVISORY/U.S. Surgeon General Commends Police Officer Safety Program.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 30) --(BUSINESS WIRE) U.S. Surgeon General The U.S. Surgeon General is charged with the protection and advancement of health in the United States. Since the 1960s the surgeon general has become a highly visible federal public health official, speaking out against known health risks such as tobacco use, and promoting disease Dr. Richard Carmona Richard Henry Carmona, (born November 22, 1949) was the 17th Surgeon General of the United States. As the Surgeon General, he was commissioned as a Vice Admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commisioned Corps and served as the head of the Corps. will praise the success of a nationwide police officer safety awareness and training program at a reception in his honor Oct. 30 in Washington, D.C. High-ranking law enforcement and government officials, and police and tactical officers from the region will attend the event hosted by the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA NTOA National Tactical Officers Association NTOA Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus NTOA Naval Targeting Operational Architecture ) and Honeywell's Spectra Technologies business. Dr. Carmona will speak about the contributions of the Spectra/NTOA "Safe Today, Alive Tomorrow" program, which celebrates its first anniversary this month and has proven to be a crucial component in safety education for police officers throughout the country. The safety awareness and training program aims to reduce the number of police officer deaths and injuries due to accidents and help officers cope with the devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. effects of trauma in the aftermath of a critical incident. Dr. Carmona will be recognized for his contributions to law enforcement as a medical director of police and fire departments and a fully-qualified peace officer with expertise in special operations and emergency preparedness, including weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or . For a media kit and information on attending the event, contact Sandy Frinton, John Mallen Communications, (800) 459-3003 or sandy@mallen.com. |
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