BEVERLY HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT

BAKER TO VEGAS

2012

For 23 years, the officers of the Beverly Hills Police Department have sent runners to participate in the Challenge Cup/Baker-to-Vegas Relay, a yearly road race that attracts law enforcement personnel from all over the U.S. and around the world. This year the event takes place from April 20th to 22nd. Organizers expect over 6000 runners and support personnel to compete in this grueling and prestigious 110-mile relay.

Once again this year, the BHPD Relay Team will honor the Vahagn Setian Charitable Foundation by running in our name. As before, our shared purpose is to raise awareness among young people of the dangers of impaired or distracted driving. This effort continues to memorialize Vahagn himself, who, as a 17-year-old Beverly High student, lost his life in December 2006, through someone else’s thoughtless, criminal act of drunken and drugged driving.

This tragedy adds urgency to the Foundation’s mission of impressing upon teenagers the potentially fatal results of impaired driving, and the correlative importance of mature choices, since our actions affect others as well as ourselves. The BHPD Relay Team is generously continuing their support of the VSCF scholarship for the Beverly High student who best exemplifies the values of wise and mature decision making.

The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) and is also classified as a public charity 509(a)(1), which makes the contributions tax-deductible. The Foundation’s Federal Tax ID is # 20-8057062.