McKeesport students go inside city’s police & fire departments

By JEFF STITT

jstitt@yourmvi.com

A group of McKeesport Area School District students got a chance to “walk the beat” Monday with a group of city police officers.

The four Founder’s Hall Middle School students gained first-hand experience in how McKeesport police officers, firefighters, elected officials and staffers interact with the community on a daily basis and what their duties entail.

Seventh-graders Toyaii Beatty and Angelina Cousineau, sixth-grader Donya Denson and eighth-grader Trelynn Jeter took a tour of the city’s police and fire departments and city hall. Their tour guides were police Chief Adam Alfer, Detective Dan Goughnour, Lt. Bob Eastman, Officer C. Tyler and K-9 Stryker. 

The group shared many laughs and personal stories as the officers showed them the evidence locker, holding cells, interrogation rooms, the squad room and the juvenile lock-up area. The students got to check out the high-definition security cameras throughout the city’s intersections, parks and school campuses. 

Eastman and K-9 Stryker gave the students a K-9 search demonstration and Goughnour fingerprinted the students.

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