Youth leader chosen to attend FBI Citizen Academy

P. Carson Culver, the youth specialist at the M.R. Dye Public Library in Horn Lake, has been selected to attend the 2013 FBI Citizen’s Academy.

Thirty community, business, civic and religious leaders are invited to participate each year by the Special Agent in Charge of the local FBI field office.

The goals and objectives for the Academy are to strengthen relationships and improve understanding between the FBI and the communities it serves. Also to provide an avenue for the FBI to hear and respond to community issues and concerns and to increase public awareness about the FBI, its mission, activities and its people.

Classes are taught by FBI special agents, FBI executives and program managers. Topics will include international and domestic terrorism, identity theft, computer hacking and safety, money laundering, national protection, violent crime, Freedom of Information & Privacy Act, firearm safety, SWAT and deadly force policy, electronic surveillance, violent crimes including bank robbery, crimes against children, hostage rescue and evidence recovery.

The Academy is an eight-week and 10-session program beginning in the fall. Horn Lake library summer reading volunteers recently got into the spirit with a standing room only “Undercover with the FBI” program at the M.R. Dye Public Library. P. Carson Culver (second row; far right) will be attending the 2013 FBI Citizen’s Academy this fall.