Steve Tompkins for Suffolk County Sheriff
In his tenure as Sheriff of Suffolk County, Sheriff Steve Tompkins has been driven by a community based approach. He has invested time and resources in re-entry services, substance abuse prevention, and services for at-risk youth.
Sheriff Tompkins created the innovative “Common Ground Institute,” a vocational training and re–entry program that teaches marketable vocation skills in a classroom setting, and he created the “Choice Program” which sends trained officers into the schools of Boston, Chelsea, Winthrop and Revere to deliver on the program’s mission of helping young people to make positive choices for future success while reinforcing the theme of respect for oneself and for others around them. He also created the PEACE Unit, which provides specialized programming for the 18 to 25 year old male population; the OASIS Program, which offers advanced addiction recovery services; and the Summer Enrichment Program, an external outreach endeavor that gives Suffolk County high school juniors and seniors who are interested in careers in the criminal justice and law enforcement sector the opportunity to intern at the Sheriff’s Office and gain valuable experience in a law enforcement setting, with presentations and visits from and to professional law enforcement and criminal justice agencies across Massachusetts.
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