DSP News Release:  Delaware State Police Explorers Attend Training in Washington, D.C. 

Location: 

• Washington, D.C.

DATE and TIME:  

• Three weeks in the Month of July

Sussex County Delaware State Police Explorers:

• Julius Young-19 Milton, De Freshman Delaware Technical and Community College
• Troy Bowden-19 Millsboro, De Freshman Delaware Technical and Community College
• Emily Bergman-18 Dagsboro, De recent Graduate Indian River High School

 Resume:

Washington D.C.-Three Delaware State Police Explorers each completed individual week long training after being selected from applications submitted from other similar Explorer programs across the country. 

Troy Bowden of Millsboro attended the United States Marshals Leadership Academy.  Julius Young attended the Federal Bureau of Investigation Leadership Academy.  Emily Bergman attended the Secret Service Leadership Academy. 

Julius Young and others represented Delaware extremely well.  Julius was honored for “Best Uniform” in class.  Because Julius was bestowed this honor he was chosen to “Present Arms” at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 

Congratulations to Julius Young, Troy Bowden and Emily Bergman for their accomplishments with the Delaware State Police Explorers Program. 

WHAT ARE THE EXPLORERS AND WHAT DO THEY DO:

Our program consists of young men and women in 9^th grade and above, between the ages of 14-20 years of age, and who have an interest in Law Enforcement. Explorers participate in Community Service events like fingerprinting young children, maintain the missing children’s area at the State Fair, Special Olympics 5k run and Polar Bear Plunge, Punkin Chunkin, and attend many other community related events throughout the State. We teach the Explorers a variety of police procedures including fingerprinting, evidence collection, radar operation, criminal investigations and patrol procedures. We mentor students for a career in Law Enforcement, and provide them with training and opportunities for their future such as Seasonal Police work and the National Law Enforcement Exploring Conference. We strive to instill leadership, responsibility, commitment and professionalism.

Always Looking for New Explorers:

Our qualification requirements are: mature, clean cut, clean shaven, 2.0 and above GPA students who have no criminal arrest history. This is not a discipline program.

There is a Post at most Troops. Contact your local State Police Troop to find out more about this program and how you could join!

Photo Identification:

Julius is pictured with two other persons.  Julius is on the right blue pants with yellow stripe

Troy is holding a certificate of completion pictured alone

Emily is pictured alone wearing blue pants with a yellow stripe