Billboard Promotes Gun Safety
Emphasizes partnership between DPS and Durham Police Department
Throughout the holiday season motorists travelling down Highway 147 at Alston Avenue will glimpse a large-scale, colorful reminder of the Durham Police Department’s (DPD) Anti-Celebratory Gunfire Campaign. DPD and Durham Public Schools joined forces to create the anti-celebratory gunfire billboard that will be displayed on Highway 147 at Alston Avenue from December 5, 2011 to January 2, 2012.
The billboard brings to a close the City’s 2011 Anti-Celebratory Gunfire Campaign coordinated by Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a unit within the Durham Police Department that connects citizens with law enforcement representatives to reduce gun crime. By the end of the year, Durham Police officers and PSN volunteers will have distributed information regarding the dangers of celebratory gunfire to residents in forty-three neighborhoods.
Artwork for the billboard was created by three Durham Public Schools fifth graders: Elijah McNair (Burton Elementary), Estefany Valenzuela (Burton Elementary), and Talijah Vann (RN Harris Elementary).
