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York Suburban moves toward contract for school resource officer with York County Regional Police
Summary
District administrators and York County Regional Police presented a school resource officer (SRO) program to the York Suburban School District board and discussed training, jurisdiction, data measures and contract timing; board members pressed for measurable outcomes before signing the contract.
York Suburban School District administrators said they expect to present a contract in April to hire a school resource officer through the York County Regional Police Department after a March 11 presentation to the board on the department’s SRO program.
The district invited Chief Timothy Damon and Corporal Christopher Boyce of the York County Regional Police Department to describe the SRO program the department has run in several area districts since 2002, the training its officers undergo and how an SRO would operate if contracted by York Suburban.
The presentation laid out program elements the department said are already in place in other districts: NASRO-certified SROs and periodic advanced training, crisis-intervention team training, CPR/first-aid certification and naloxone carrying, K-9 capabilities for narcotics and electronic detection, and a department mental-health professional on call. The police representatives described routine SRO duties as “hallway security,” lunch and dismissal monitoring, door checks and classroom guest…
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