About the Program

In 2000, the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office began the SEEK program under the direction of former Sheriff Joseph Oxley. SEEK is an acronym: Sheriff's Emergency Education for Kids.

This program is designed to educate children on the proper techniques when calling 9-1-1 during an emergency. The program, which is tailored toward children and taught throughout the school year, provides life-saving instructions, a video presentation, scenarios, and an interactive session in which the kids practice calling 9-1-1 on an actual telephone.

To date, the staff of the Monmouth County Sheriff's Office — Communications Division has educated over 35,000 children ages 5-8. At the end of the program every student receives a 9-1-1 coloring and activity book which reviews everything they learned in our program.