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CFISD police and emergency management detail security layers, response times and audits
Summary
Police Chief Mendez and Emergency Management Director Scott Hudson described the district’s layered safety approach — patrol structure, safe-school checks, tip line, intruder-audit results and planned corrective actions — and said average emergency response time during the first semester was about 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
The Cypress-Fairbanks ISD police department and the Office of Emergency Management presented a safety-and-security update Feb. 6 outlining staffing, patrol coverage, preventive measures and audit findings.
Chief Mendez described the department’s size and structure: a department established in 2012 that now is budgeted for 117 officers and provides 24/7 coverage. Officers are organized by lieutenants into geographic zones and ‘‘pods’’ of elementary schools; daytime patrol officers perform perimeter and interior checks (which the chief called “safe school checks”). The department reported 19,468 safe-school checks at elementary campuses in the first semester and 61,283 calls for service district-wide during…
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