School Resource Officer
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This webinar will outline the steps to conducting meetings and deciding on roles, responsibilities and procedures to developing tabletop exercises and small-scale training drills, and eventually graduating to full-scale training exercises that involve realistic role players and responses for active shooter response
This Southern California agency is implementing early intervention to prevent potential school safety threats from materializing into violence
Up to 29 charter schools recently reported they have no long-term plan for having an armed guard on campus as required by law
Uniontown Area School District in Pennsylvania responded to a student threat by upping its security measures and screening all students and visitors
Scot Peterson’s attorneys say prosecutors stretched laws “beyond their breaking points” when they charged him
Defense attorney Joseph DiRuzzo III said Scot Peterson is being made a scapegoat
Scot Peterson faces charges that carry a combined potential prison sentence of nearly 100 years
Several students tried to pull an officer off a student who was resisting arrest, causing a brawl with about 80 students, police and staff
The K-9 is grinning ear-to-ear in the school’s yearbook
Police arrested seven people ending a monthlong sit-in in the lobby of an administrative building at a Baltimore university
The full BEhavioral Threat Assessment program (BETA) lasts four days
The LEO says he secured the building as he was trained, repeating his actions were based on “real time intelligence”
In this Q&A, a former cop turned school safety expert discusses best practices and tech tools that local law enforcement can use to prevent violence on campus
With a new law passed, retired COs can now work as armed school police officers at New Jersey schools
The dad claims he saw an adult grab his son on a video call and headed to the school, forgetting he had the gun tucked in his pants
The student is now facing multiple felony charges
The SROs have reported a “toxic” school environment where they’ve been verbally harassed on a daily basis
Jim and Doug discuss what lack of leadership means for all law enforcement leaders
When a police agency fails to protect its community, the failure can almost always be traced to the head of that agency
Early and transparent communication among all who are likely to be involved in a school shooting incident is a primary factor in keeping schools safe
Why aren’t we as a society focusing more on efficient training for those involved in the incident prior to the arrival of responders?
While responding to school threats like active shooters is a part of an SRO’s responsibilities, it barely scratches the surface of how SROs serve our schools
T.E.A.M. is a proactive effort to make schools and communities safer, promote responsible citizenship and encourage positive character traits
Planning active shooter response training with police, fire, EMS, trauma docs and medivac helicopters is a complex and challenging task
Officer Steve Timm shot Charles Landeros, 30, once in the head after Landeros moments earlier pulled out a handgun and fired twice in Timm’s direction
The police union has asked the school district to investigate why their officer was removed from campus
The Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment (EDGE) is a free virtual training platform funded by DHS
A judge has rejected a deputy’s claim that he had no duty to confront the gunman during the school shooting in Parkland
What challenges will law enforcement face in 2019?
The study’s findings go against logic and common sense in how people react around police, the executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers said
Safety panel members have said they believe former deputy Scot Peterson’s inaction allowed gunman Nikolas Cruz to climb to the third floor, where five students and one teacher were killed
Inappropriate posts can have an adverse effect on a kid’s future many years down the line
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