Thursday, May 10, 2012
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, …
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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 …
Monday, November 8, 2010
A second teen is sought by the police.
Police suspect that two teenagers threatened students at Springbrook High School with a handgun in the morning of Thursday, Nov. 4. At 7:26 a.m., the School Resource Officer for Springbrook was notified of the incident. According to an initial investigation, police believe that two students engaged in a fist fight near campus. A third person, who police think was not directly involved in the fight, pulled out a gun and waved it at one of the fighters. The crowd scattered and fled the scene, but the first suspect handed the gun to the second suspect, who began to run after students and direct the weapon at them. The school was placed under a "code blue" when officials learned of the incident, however neither the gun nor the suspects were …
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