Wednesday, January 23, 2013
School resource officers will begin working at Chartiers Valley's three school campuses on Feb. 1.
The Chartiers Valley School Board has agreed to security contracts with Scott and Collier townships, meaning a school resource officer will be patrolling the three campuses beginning Feb. 1. Both townships also approved the agreements with the school district after numerous meetings and discussions over the past month. The program will put one school resource police officer provided by Scott Township at the intermediate school and two officers provided by Collier Township splitting duties between the middle/high school and primary school campuses. The school district will fund the two-year program before all sides re-evaluate it again in December 2014. “I think the best part is that the school district and municipalities are working well …
Thursday, January 3, 2013
A Collier Township official said there’s a “good chance” school resource officers could be working inside the Chartiers Valley middle/high and primary schools next year.
There’s a “good chance” school resource officers could be working inside the Chartiers Valley middle/high and primary schools next year. Collier Township commissioners and several Chartiers Valley School District officials met Wednesday to discuss implementing the program and the role the police officers would play while at the schools. Bob Schuler, president of the Collier Board of Commissioners, said they were concerned about making sure the township was ultimately in control of the police officers and that they weren’t just security guards. “It was a good meeting,” Schuler said. “A good discussion.” Chartiers Valley Superintendent Brian While Jr. and school directors Pam Poletti, Debbie Rice, Jamie Stevenson and Sandy Zeleznik met with …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The school district is working with police to place “school resource officers” inside the three campuses.
Chartiers Valley School District officials first thing Monday morning met with the police chiefs in Collier and Scott to review school security and how it can be improved. Superintendent Brian White Jr. spent the morning with Collier police Chief Tom Devin and Scott police Chief Jim Secreet and they discussed the possibility of adding a police officer to the district’s three school campuses. In a letter to parents Monday, White said they made the formal request to both police departments to have a “school resource officers” at the middle/high school, primary school and intermediate school. “The school district is making preparations to substantially fund this effort from our existing budget,” White wrote in the letter. The middle/high …
Mike Jones
2:33 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
There seems to be some questions about whether the SROs will be armed. YES... These are fully functioning police officers under the direction of the Collier Township and Scott Township police departments. And as the story clearly states, they will be able to perform normal police work when school is not in session. more ›