Davis: APS police officers can better identify sensitive relationships, head issues off earlier
Superintendent Erroll B. Davis and the Atlanta school board discusses implementing its own police force. Another APS Community Listening Session to discuss ideas on how to enhance school safety set for Wednesday.
As reported here at Midtown Patch following last week’s Atlanta Public Schools' safety and transportation meeting at Grady High School, the district is considering moving towards 100 percent APS law enforcement services, which would replace Atlanta police officers currently working in the schools with full-time APS employees as Resource Officers assigned to individual schools on a more permanent basis. The School Resource Officer (SRO) program is hoped to give consistency and improved services with focused training that is scalable and leads to safe schools according to presentation at Monday's Board of Education meeting. The presentation, which is included with this story, was an overview of conversations that began last year around …
