GOAL: Reduce the threat of violence in all of our city’s public schools.
STRATEGIES:
1. Add six School Resource Officers to the SRO Program to work in Middle Schools. Responsibility: Chief of Police.
2. Secure a set of plans for all public schools; conduct tactical training in schools; develop an overall response plan for school violence.
3. Identify dangerous juveniles who pose a real threat to the safety of others in school. Work with the School System, District Attorney’s Office and Courts to remove those children from public schools. Target Date: Ongoing. Responsibility: SHOCAP Team, Special Services Bureau Commander.
4. Conduct a full-scale training scenario in one of the middle/elementary schools to test our response to a school violence situation. Responsibility: Special Services Bureau Commander.