I-Team Exclusive: When Heroin Arrived At School, Veteran Officer Credited With Making The Difference

I-Team Exclusive: When Heroin Arrived At School, Veteran Officer Credited With Making The Difference

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia Police are crediting a veteran officer with helping protect children from exposure to a deadly drug, when packets of heroin were brought into the school where she is assigned as part of the department’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Unit.

In an exclusive interview with CBS 3’s Walt Hunter, Officer Wendy McGrody, who has worked around the city for DARE in schools for 19 years, told how a young student, who she has just instructed about the dangers of drugs, walked up to her in the crowded cafeteria of the Cramp School, handing her a heroin packet he had just found, explaining, “it was the ‘right thing to do’, those were his exact words.”

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