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Cpl. Christina Thuman, a military police officer with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar’s Provost Marshal’s Office, and “McGruff,” the crime-fighting police dog, greet students as they arrive to Walker Elementary School Oct. 23.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Alexandra M. Harris

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‘McGruff,’ Marine promote drug awareness

23 Oct 2009 | Lance Cpl. Alexandra M. Harris Marine Corps Air Station Miramar-EMS

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SAN DIEGO -- “McGruff” the crime-fighting police dog, and Cpl. Christina Thuman, a military police officer with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar’s Provost Marshal’s Office, spoke to elementary students about drug awareness and general safety at Walker Elementary School Oct. 23.

McGruff and Thuman also visited the school on Oct. 19 and 21 as part of Red Ribbon Week which promotes drug awareness.

“It gets the message across without using scare tactics,” said Liz Barnes, the school liaison.

McGruff and Thuman greeted students and passed out pencils and stickers as they walked through the gate. McGruff also gave the students hugs and high-fives.

Students moved into the library to participate in a drug-versus-candy activity. The students examined a display with 18 different unknown substances, and guessed whether the substance was a drug or candy.

“It’s a good message -- especially now,” said Thuman. “There are drugs everywhere and kids need to grow up with more awareness of them.”

After the students finished with the activity, Thuman and McGruff finished the day discussing “stranger danger” and Halloween safety.

“It was fun,” said Morgan Green, a nine-year-old student at Walker Elementary School. “I learned not to take drugs.”

Thuman passed out candy as students left the library with a better understanding of dangers they may face.

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POLICY

The most important starting point for an EMS* is the development of an environmental policy. ISO14001 requires local governments to implement their own environmental policy. The environmental policy acts as a basis for the environmental management system.

PLANNING

ISO14001 requires that an environmental management system is planned properly. It requires the organization to consider the following carefully: Environmental Aspects; Legal and Other Aspects; Objectives and Targets; and an Environmental Management Program.

IMPLEMENTATION

The two requirements for implementation of an EMS is to define, document, and communicate roles, responsibilities and authorities, and to allocate the resources needed to implement and control the EMS.

CHECKING

The key requirement in this EMS step is to regularly monitor and measure key characteristics of activities and operations that could have a significant impact on the environment. Changes to EMS procedures may become necessary in order to deal with nonconformances with the EMS, with mitigating environmental impacts, or corrective and preventive action.

REVIEW

The management review process ensure that information is collected to enable management to carry out proper review. Top management review the need for changes to policy, objectives and targets, and ensure that a commitment to continual improvement is being demonstrated.

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