Deputy Edward “Chip” Brockman
Broward Sheriff’s Office
Olsen Middle School
Deputy Edward “Chip” Brockman has a history of serving the students of Olsen Middle School with support, enthusiasm and determination. A 17-year veteran of the School Resource Deputy program, he has been assigned to the Olsen Middle for the last 13 years. During that time, Deputy Brockman has served as a resource and educator for the students, faculty and staff at the school.

He has sponsored the Just Say No Club, organized Red Ribbon Week during each of his years as the school’s SRD, initiated a Crime Watch Club to help decrease incidents of crime at and around the school and began the “My Buddy” program dedicated to decreasing or eliminating bullying. The entire school has benefited from the students serving as observers and examples of good behavior. Under his instruction, more than 6,000 students have graduated from the G.R.E.A.T. Program.

Understanding how important physical wellbeing is to students at the middle school level, Deputy Brockman has made this a significant component of his school program. He is very active in the school’s extracurricular activities that provide the students with a safe environment to compete and learn from each other. He has been a successful coach for volleyball, director of the intramural programs, including flag football, and initiated a street hockey program. Deputy Brockman is a former high school football referee with the Florida High School Athletic Association and he referees all the faculty/student athletic events at Olsen Middle. He has also arranged for sports personalities such as NFL players Irving Fryer and Zack Thomas to speak to students at the school.

To promote family and community involvement, Deputy Brockman has been actively involved in Olsen Middle’s Parent Advisory Forum and School Advisory Council. In fact, he was nominated as the South Area Parent Advisory Community Person of the Year. Deputy Brockman is also a past recipient of the Babione Award, an honor given to someone who has gone above and beyond the call of duty during the school year. He is also involved in planning all of the school’s holiday events, including the Family Fun Day and Halloween Hoopla and assists with the distribution of food and toys for needy families in conjunction with the local fire department.

Deputy Brockman is very committed to his community. He is an active member of his church, a member of the City of Dania Parks and Recreation Board of Directors, serves as vice president of the City of Dania Beach Optimists and as a Cub Scouts Committee Chairperson. Each year, he sponsors a Bike Rodeo and coaches sports for the Dania Optimists.

Deputy Edward “Chip” Brockman is an exceptional resource deputy and during his years of service to Olsen Middle School it has become a safer place to work and learn.

Officer Henry Cabrera
Coconut Creek Police Department
Coconut Creek Elementary School
Officer Henry Cabrera defines every attribute associated with the term “community oriented policing.” His accomplishments are a tribute to his dedication, professionalism and sincere concern for the youth of his school and community. Officer Cabrera is an excellent listener.

His demeanor is one that invites students to trust and share their experiences and to help staff at Coconut Creek Elementary feel comfortable with school safety operations. He is able to anticipates problems and helps the school get a jump-start on developing solutions. He has enhanced the school’s safety plan by redesigning the traffic plan around the school to make it more accommodating to residents in the area while speeding up the drop off and pick up process. He assisted in developing the school’s safety plan and has helped prepared students and faculty for various types of emergencies by organizing drills and training. He has also given safety presentations at area pre-school day care and summer camp programs.

In addition to his work with the students involved with his DARE program, he visits every classroom and instructs students in the appropriate response to dangerous situations, bike safety, bus behavior, weapons and 911 emergency responses. To support the fourth-grade writing curriculum, he annually sponsors an essay contest and bike give-a-way. He schedules his Crime Watch group to speak to the fifth-grade classes about middle school and experiences that lay ahead.

Officer Cabrera’s concern for Coconut Creek students is not limited to the classroom and the schoolhouse. He is also instrumental in organizing the school’s annual holiday bicycle giveaway, identifying children who are in need, refurbishing bicycles and distributing them. In conjunction with a local church, he organizes an annual turkey give-a-way program. Each Thanksgiving, he, along with other officers, distribute meals to needy families. He has organized a letter writing campaign for the students of Coconut Creek Elementary School to provide letters of good will to military troops serving in Iraq. He participated in the annual Public Kids Fest, and conducts safety presentations for Home Depot’s semi-annual Kids Fest. Recently he founded the Adopt A Park program, where the city’s Police Explorers “adopt” a designed park to insure that it is kept clean and safe. To date, the program has saved the city more than $2,500 in ongoing maintenance costs. In addition, Officer Cabrera is planning on adopting two families in need over the holidays and he and his Explorers will raise money from car washes to provide these families with grocery and toy store gift certificates.

Officer Marc Greenstein
Miramar Police Department
A.C. Perry Elementary School
Officer Marc Greenstein is a 15-year veteran of the Miramar Police Department. He has delivered several innovative programs to many students in the City of Miramar, including the DARE program, Eddie Eagle Gun Safety, and Stranger/Danger. He was instrumental in implementation of the City Youth Crime Watch program, which was submitted for the Casey Award in 2003 and the Miramar Police Department received the Law Enforcement Organization of the Year during the Youth Leaders Crime Prevention Conference. “Casey Award” winners are selected from hundreds of organizations, schools and community programs that have made outstanding contributions to the prevention of crime, drugs and violence throughout the world.

Officer Greenstein plays a leading role in the city’s Bicycle Safety Program and operates a highly successful Police Athletic League Program at A.C. Perry Elementary. He is also instrumental in the offering of a free summer program targeting at-risk youth known as “Hangin’ with 5-0.” This program involves over 180 youth during the summer and includes the training of student counselors from Miramar and Everglades high schools. In 2003 the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and ITT Industries Night Vision selected the program as a finalist for its Community Policing Award. Additionally, the program received a Certificate of Achievement for the Police Executive Research Forum’s (PERF) Herman Goldstein Award. In addition to his many education accomplishments, Officer Greenstein has organized a highly successful community service program to assist the Senior Citizens in the City of Miramar.

Officer Greenstein offers homework assistance to his students and makes every effort to identify at-risk students and provide them with the necessary mentoring to succeed. The teachers and school administration consider him a valuable asset for his tireless work to ensure the highest quality of services to school, parents and children.