In the Fall of 1988, Chief of Police Dennis Nichols sent then patrolman Steve Adams to a 1-day preview of the D.A.R.E. program presented for area law-enforcement agencies by the Tulsa Police Department. After spending the day seeing the program first hand, Chief Nichols made the decision to train a Pryor Police Department officer to present the D.A.R.E. program to the children of Mayes County.

Patrolman Steve Adams was selected to attend D.A.R.E. officer training in Tulsa in the Fall of 1988. After a rigorous two weeks of training, PTL. Adams came  back to Mayes County and began a 15-year run as the D.A.R.E. officer for the Pryor Police Department.

For the first three years, the program was presented to 6 school districts in Mayes County, Oklahoma:  Pryor, Osage, Chouteau, Locust Grove, Salina, and Adair. In the 15 years that the D.A.R.E. program has been in existence in Mayes County, over 5,000 5th graders have been given the tools needed to combat the pressures thrown at them to start using alcohol and drugs.

Here's a link to the Official D.A.R.E. Web Site