Dyersburg Police have a long standing close working relationship with Dyersburg City Schools. For nearly 20 years, DPD has had a specialized unit with Investigators trained to work closely with school officials in enforcement and prevention capacities. Community Services workers are assigned a different neighborhood every afternoon following school hours and carry large trucks of trash and debris to the city landfill daily. Buildings that are not compliant are being torn down on a regular basis. Several community groups are having regular, monthly clean-up days.
Project is on-going.
They have received pledges from 50 local ministers to attend training to help stabilize local homes. The program is designed to reduce divorce in Dyer County by helping marriage partners build stronger relationships by building on better foundations through pre-marital counseling. The program reduced crime in the neighborhood, involved nearly 100 children throughout the summer months, and increased parental involved in community programs. A computer lab has been set up at the site and older children can be involved in a business that specializes in greeting card design, printing and distribution. The older children draw art-work and write poetry for the cards, use computers to design and print the cards, and sell them in the community.