North Penn administrators propose district-run public safety department with sworn school police officers

Dr. Bauer told the Safe Schools Committee in September 2025 that the administration is recommending the district consider reorganizing its Office of Emergency Management and Safe Schools into a Department of Public Safety that would employ sworn school police officers. "Our hope is to present a model of comprehensive public safety department that includes school police officers to best serve our students, staff, and community of the North Penn School District," Dr. Bauer said.

The proposed model would convert five or six current security staff into sworn officers, with a total of six sworn school police officers assigned to secondary buildings and districtwide duties. "We would have six sworn police officers, school police officers who are employed by the North Penn School District," Mr. Roan, the district's director of emergency management and safe schools, said. The presentation said the officers would be able to enforce the Pennsylvania crimes and vehicle codes on district property, investigate incidents on district property "within our capacity," and issue citations for certain offenses instead of calling…