How can our school partner with law enforcement?
There are many ways to partner with local law enforcement. That's an important thing for schools to do. School resource officer programs, school liaison officer programs, educational programs where officers come in and teach, mentoring programs. Just having officers able to use your school as workspace to come do their reports there. Coming to have lunch with the students. There are a variety of ways to integrate law enforcement effectively to schools to improve those schools, and to improve local law enforcement services. What we see are many creative ways. Some schools have officers living on campus after hours, they provide living space to reduce vandalism and burglary. There are a lot of creative ways. Letting the local police SWAT team practice with your building after hours, letting canine handlers come in and utilize your schools for canine training every once in awhile. Letting the police academy use the school to do training during the summer when the school's not in session. There are a lot of ways to improve that partnership in a way that's beneficial to our schools and to our law enforcement agencies.
