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The Municipal Peace officer Training Council (MPTC) prescribes a minimum of 700 hours of training for police officers in New York. [11] Peace officers, which are considered specialists in a particular type of employment and title require less training (180 hours) but are usually provided with agency-specific or mission-specific training by ...
Between 1999 and 2005, the federal government awarded more than $750 million dollars to hire nearly 7,000 school resource officers across the country to tackle the new surge of school shootings. [5] Between 1997 and 2007, the number of SROs in schools rose by approximately 6,700.
The New York City Police Department School Safety Division is the law enforcement agency for New York City Department of Education schools. The agency is a division of the New York City Police Department Community Affairs Bureau and is one of the largest school-based law enforcement agencies in New York City and the United States, with approximately 5,000 School Safety Agents (SSA's) and 200 ...
A judge on Thursday ordered MPS to comply with the state law that requires Milwaukee schools return 25 school resource officers to their buildings. That law took effect last January, but MPOS has ...
The school district in Minneapolis, the city where George Floyd died, has already voted to terminate its contract with the local police department. Do we need police in schools? The debate over ...
As part of an ongoing conversation about school resource officers, the State College Community Oversight Board held a meeting Thursday to hear parents’ and community members’ experiences.
A number of private communities have their own public safety departments. A limited number of personnel are New York State peace officers after completing the New York State Peace Officer Standard of Training (POST) course. This grants them very limited peace officer authority within their geographical area of employment in New York City.
Ray Hall, school police officer in Texas. A coalition of over 100 education and civil rights groups called the Dignity In Schools Campaign released a set of recommendations in September, saying social workers and intervention workers should replace police officers in schools. There are 1.6 million students across the country who have a cop in ...