Officer Tarkong opened the presentation by handing out Crime Stoppers pamphlets and pencils to the students and showing them a brief video on what the program “Crime Stoppers” was all about.
Officer Tarkong told the students that the program, since it’s inception in 1989, has provided tips to law enforcement agencies allowing law enforcement to arrest criminals. So far, the program has helped seize over 200 criminals.
He also said that the Law enforcement agencies have recovered over $200,000 worth of stolen property and seized over $2,448,000 worth of illegal drugs.
One student asked, “How does everything remain a secret if you are offering money for tips? How do these people collect their money in secrecy?”
“The NMI Crime Stoppers Board of Directors is made of men and women volunteers, whose mandate is to maintain the anonymous tips line and work with the community, media and law enforcement in getting criminals off the streets of the NMI. The caller is given a pin number and is told to call back in 6-8 weeks. We then set up a place to meet where we can pay the caller.” said Tarkong.
“You could be the missing link, the missing piece of an unsolved case. All you have to do is call.” He added. With this, he opened the floor to Frank “The Crank” Camacho to talk more about violence and positive fighting.
Camacho showed the class a brief video on his accomplishments while fighting in the cage for Trench Tech and several international fights.
He ended this video with a quote ‘Hard work beats talent if talent refuses to do hard work”. He told the young students to write this quote down and abide by it as much as they can.
He then declared to the class that he has never been in a violent fight outside of the cage or competition therefore kids shouldn’t try it and as much as possible, to stay away from it.
Officer Tarkong then took the floor once more and told the kids to participate in positive after school activities to keep them from doing and trying illegal things because at the end of the day they would be too tired to try these things
“Don’t ever let anyone get in the away of your dreams. Don’t even call these dreams, dreams. Call them goals.” added Camacho.
Officer Tarkong then ended the presentation with a few clips of the negative things that happens to people who drink too much and end up not knowing what they did or where they ended up the next day.
The Students really enjoyed the presentation and vowed to stay away from drugs and violence.
