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Safety-Awareness Training for Sistercare Employees |
The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department in cooperation with SABRE will conduct a three-hour, safety-awareness program at 8 a.m. on Friday, November 6 for employees of Sistercare, Inc., which provides services for battered women and their children in Lexington, Fairfield, Kershaw, Newberry and Richland counties.
Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said Sistercare employees will receive instruction about how to defend themselves and escape in the event that they are attacked and how to deploy a chemical pepper aerosol spray in the event that they are assaulted. The safety-awareness program will be conducted free of charge for Sistercare employees at the Lexington County James R. Metts Law Enforcement Complex, 521 Gibson Road, Lexington.
Sistercare employees who participate in the safety-awareness program will receive a chemical pepper aerosol spray kit, including inert devices that they can safely practice with as well as a device that can disperse an active chemical pepper aerosol spray, Metts said. They will receive hands-on training in deploying a chemical pepper spray. Sistercare employees also will receive a safety-awareness manual.
“Sistercare employees work in partnership with the Sheriff’s Department to change the quality of life for battered women in Lexington County,” Metts said. “The goal of the safety-awareness program is to provide Sistercare employees with instruction that helps them to be smart, be ready and be alert while dealing with volatile situations in domestic violence cases.”
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