The School Safety topic features news and information to help patrol officers, school resource officers and police leaders address issues of school safety and law enforcement response to acts of violence in our nation’s classrooms and campuses. Content addresses how to train students to respond to extreme school violence, evacuation protocols during school shootings and suspicious student behaviors that should be reported to intervention teams.
Contrary to what some may say, the role of school resource officer is just as challenging as many other roles in law enforcement. In this video, Dave Smith reviews footage of a dispute on school grounds that quickly became an officer-involved shooting.
Doug Wyllie and the NRA's Glen Hoyer discuss the National School Shield program. The program connects schools directly to police departments, which results in safer schools, better relationships, and tighter-knit communities.
In this video, Police1 Editor at Large Doug Wyllie discusses multi-jurisdictional response to mass casualty incidents on college campuses with Michael Glaubach of George Washington University Police in Washington D.C.
Alicia Lutman speaks with Doug Wyllie about a program that helps school resource officers help develop socially acceptable behavior in kids who may be sliding towards a crisis point.
Police1 Editor at Large Doug Wyllie talks with Alicia Lutman about a program that trains School Resource Officers (SROs) on how to help develop socially acceptable behavior in children that are sliding toward a crisis point.