Law Enforcement Scholarships
Law Enforcement Scholarships
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Various orgnaizations offer scholarhips to graduation high school students who are persuing a career in law enforcement. We have beguun building a list of those orgnaizations as a clearing house for our D-Y seniors to use as a slunch pad as they make thier post-high school plans.
Yarmouth Police
Relief Association
The Yarmouth Police Relief Association (YPRA) is a 503C origination that serves as the charitable arm of the Yarmouth Police Department. The YPRA raises money each year to fund its good works in the community including the YPRA scholarship program. Funds are raised though an annual 5K road race in the spring and a pickleball tournament for the fall. We offer three memorial scholarships each year in the memory of our lost collogues in the amount of $2,000 each.
The Sergeant Sean Gannon Memorial Scholarship
Sean Gannon was a skilled police officer and K-9 handler and more importantly, an exemplary human being who always served others. Sean was murdered in the line of duty while serving an arrest warrant. End of Watch 4/12/2018. This scholarship is just one of the ways we remember him and extend his legacy of service through its recipient.
$2,000 award
Criteria ~
The student must be:
A Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School student in good standing
A resident of the Town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Attending a college or university as a Criminal Justice or Emergency Management (like Sean) major and,
Pursuing a career in law enforcement
Unaffiliated with the YPRA
The Sergeant Thomas Robinson Memorial Scholarship
Tom Robinson was a beloved Yarmouth Police patrol supervisor. He was a former Juvenile officer. Cancer took him from us in the 30th year of his career.
$2,000 award
Criteria ~
The student must be:
A Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School student in good standing
A resident of the Town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Attending a college or university as a Criminal Justice major and,
Pursuing a career in law enforcement
Unaffiliated with the YPRA
The Thomas Minckler Memorial Scholarship
Thomas Minckler was a Yarmouth Police Officer who was a pioneer police K-9 handler. Tom was a national champion competitor in that discipline. He was also a former D-Y track coach. Disease took him before his time.
$2,000 award
Criteria ~
The student must be:
A Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School student in good standing
A resident of the Town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Attending a college or university as a Criminal Justice major and,
Pursuing a career in law enforcement
Unaffiliated with the YPRA
YPRA Scholarship Recipients
2017
Yarmouth Police Officer Liz Scott
2024
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