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School Resource Officers

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Speak Out: Do Police Officers Belong In Montgomery County Schools?

The debate surrounding school resource officers continues. Montgomery County Council members and the county police chief have suggested a roundtable to address the issue.

  What place do police officers have in Montgomery County's public schools?  The issue of how to fund school resource officers continues to baffle county officials. The county's schools, police and council all recognize the benefit of the placing officers at local public high schools, but disagree as to its implementation and its scope. Police Chief Thomas Manger in January told the council that adding officers to schools would greatly impact the department's ability to deal with youth crime. With the budget cuts in previous years, only one SROs has been assigned to each police district, although previously the county boasted one officer per school cluster. The cities of Gaithersburg and Rockville supply officers to their city high schools…

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County Wants Police Officers Back in Schools

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Online addict

10:19 am on Friday, May 11, 2012

Great link Susan! This is what I see at schools all the time and it is truly a great thing, these officers do more than folks realize and they are often so underappreciated by those who do not see them in action.   more ›

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

County Wants Police Officers Back in Schools

Montgomery County residents and officials are advocating the return of a full school resource officer program in Montgomery County schools to help with preventative public safety.

Montgomery County officials, police and parents are hopeful that the fiscal 2013 operating budget will allow the county to increase police staffing where they say it could have the greatest impact on public safety: in public schools. "Many of our high schools are virtual cities, many with over 2,000 students and hundreds of staff per school," said Susan Burkinshaw, an advocate of the school resource officer program and co-chair of the Safety and Health Committee of the county council of PTAs. "We don’t need officers in our schools because our schools are not safe; we need officers in our schools to keep our schools and communities safe." With recent budget cuts, school resource officers—traditionally a police officer stationed within high …

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Gaithersburg High School (in Gaithersburg Patch)

B Allen

10:09 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012

So now those knuckleheads in the county council and exec office want to take police from writing tickets and increasing the revenues for the county and have them visit the schools? So that is why they are spending our hard earned tax dollars on more speed cameras...and tleggett and the council members think they are clever, they are just a bunch of scum sucking bottom feeders and think that the …   more ›

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