Sending a police officer into a room full of middle school students is not always as easy as it looks on paper. A police officer’s training, while thorough in many areas, fails to prepare an SRO for the unique challenges of a classroom. Talk a drunk out of a hostile situation? Our officers have it covered. Ask them to write a lesson plan?

You may get nothing but blank stares and a polite no thank you. Officer D’Ambrose, who in uniquely qualified for her task, is developing a home-based training program that she hopes, will alleviate the fears and concerns of SRO’s and school administrators.

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