SRO Programs
Corbin & Associates, Inc., is providing School Based Law Enforcement Personnel with a variety of current programs and contacts that have proven to be successful in the educational environment. This is not meant to be all inclusive, but rather a starting place for officers to build contacts and receive information on programs that have worked well for others. Should you have a program that is working well for you and would like to have it added to our web site please contact us and we will assist you.
Zero Tolerance For School Violence: The St. Charles Parish Safe School Program has reduced fights and violence in their schools. This cooperative effort of the sheriff's department, school board, district attorney and district court is continuing to keep the St. Charles Parish Schools safer than schools in surrounding parishes. What makes this program unique is that every student who fights is arrested. What happens after the arrest with diversion, counseling and education is what makes the program work. For additional information on this program and how to implement it please contact:
Capt. Patrick Yoes,
St. Charles Parish, Louisiana Sheriff's Department,
P. O. Box 7, Hahnville, LA 70057
(504) 783-1355
or e-mail: patyoes@stcharlessheriff.org
Daytime Loitering (truancy & daytime curfew): The City of Colton, CA has instituted a daytime loitering ordinance that matches the school's operation hours. The young people in Colton must be either in school or at home when school is open. The suspensions are no longer seen as vacations and the students do not want to be out of school. The implementation of the ordinance has also reduced daytime crime.
For additional information contact:
Cpl. Ernie Mireles,
Colton Police Department or Colton High School (909) 876-4130
or e-mail: Topcopper@aol.com
or Ofc. Steven R. Smith at the Redlands Police Department
(909) 798-7681 or e-mail: Steven Smith
Check out Redlands Daytime Loitering Law at Redlands Municipal Codes and go to 9.24.040.
Cops & Jocks: This concept involves the entire department in the SRO program. An officer adopts the team or extra-curricular activity that they are interested in. They act as volunteer coaches and fans. The officers are given an opportunity to talk to the athletes about violence and drugs and have the opportunity to know the young people better. It has been very successful in Southern California.
For additional information contact:
Cops N Jocks
P.O.S.S.E. (Parents + Officers = Safe School Environment) Volunteers: This program involves parents and volunteers in their schools. In an effort to create a drug-free and crime-free zone on and around schools so students can attend school without fear. The volunteer patrols work with the School Resource Officers to support them. The parents are trained and given a cell phone. They then act as an extra set of eyes on and around the campus. The Twin Falls County Sheriff's Department has written and received a grant to train and supply the volunteers.
For additional information contact:
Teddy Keaton at e-mail: tekeeto@ibm.net
or Sgt. Sam Gibbs (208) 736-4109
Alternative Center for Truancy: This program is designed to get truants off the street and have them supervised to improve attendance and eventually graduation rates. This is a cooperative program between the Orange County Public Schools, Orange County Sheriff's Office and the Orlando Police Department. The program has taken an office in the Juvenile Assessment Center and made it a school site. The truants are delivered to the school site by patrol officers, where a needs assessment is done and parents contacted. This program has had a very positive impact on juvenile crime and has made parents aware and responsible.
(No e-mail) Contact the Alternative Center for Truancy at (407) 836-8886 or mailing address of: 823 W. Central Blvd., Orlando, FL 32805
Jr. Police Academy: During summer school of 1997, Hanford High SRO's taught the "Junior Police Academy" (JPA). Two separate three week academies were offered so that students could sign up for one of the two. Each session earned the student 5 units of "elective" summer school credit.
The original purchased curriculum was set up for 16 one hour sessions. After purchasing the curriculum, the officers expanded it to sixty hours to fit the three week sessions (4 hours per day).
During each academy, students were taught teamwork, law, ethics, hands on techniques like finger printing, trips to the court and morgue, and forensics. Crime scene search, traffic stops, hand to hand combat and baton training were some of the practical situations the students faced.
After the second academy, students were sent into a "Hogan's Alley" shoot/don't shoot situation and got first hand experience of the type of problems officers face.
This year, an "advanced" academy is in the works and will take the students who have completed the basic course on step further.
Both law enforcement and the students walked away with a better understanding of each other. Everyone benefited in some way.
For further information contact:
Officers Daren Matteson or Jim Adams,
Hanford Police Department.
e-mail: Daren Matteson hpdsro@hotmail.com
or Jim Adams srocop@hotmail.com
School Safety Notes Newsletter: School Safety Notes is a monthly newsletter published by the Walnut Valley Unified School District Police Department, and made available to the students, parents, and staff of the district. School Safety Notes contains information on various topics such as crime prevention, safety and security awareness, and upcoming crime prevention events such as Red Ribbon Week, Fire Safety Month, etc. Readers are also giving the opportunity to request articles on specific safety and crime prevention topics. For more information, please contact us or visit our website at:
http://www.walnutvalley.k12.ca.us/police
Walnut Valley USD Police
c/o Ofcr. M. Lynn
880 South Lemon Avenue
Walnut, California 91789
Business Phone (909) 839-1269 (0800-1400 PST; 24 hour voicemail available)
S.H.O.T. : (Officer Davies Says, See it, Hear it, Tell it! The Life You Save May Be Your Own!) is a reality-based program that was developed to teach the responsibility of being responsible to young school aged children and teenagers. Real life scenarios, stories and games are used to illustrate the pros and cons of standing up for what is right and doing the right thing.
T-shirts, CD cases and campaign buttons are used with the S. H.O.T. logo printed on them as rewards. These items are given to students that have been seen doing something good around campus or acting in a responsible manner.
For more information contact:
Sgt. Richard Davies Pine Bluff, AR, Police Department;
E-mail: rgd615@cei.net
Mountain Explorers: Mountain Explorers is an after-school program for middle school students sponsored in collaboration with the Pueblo Police Department, School District # 60, and the Mountain Park Environmental Center. It is a program funded by Century 21 grant funds. The program is designed to give students an opportunity to explore, learn about and experience the natural world in the Pueblo Mountain Park in Beulah. Students will participate in hiking, nature exploration, wildlife watching, nature games and animal tracking. Each session has room for 12 students, who will participate in all four trips. Each student is asked to come dressed to hike and be outdoors in varying weather and they are told to bring a filled, leak-proof water bottle, notebook, pencil (all in a small backpack) and a good attitude. No electronic games, radios, or other devices (cameras OK). Participants are chosen by the School Resource Officer and other school staff.
For more information regarding the Mountain Explorers contact:
Officer Lance Fitzgerald, Program Coordinator, at (719) 549-7463
Where training is by experience...not theory.