The SRO program has been highly successful. It has been acclaimed by administration, faculty, students and parents. The SROs work proactively by conducting anti-bullying and alcohol and drug use prevention programs. They provide security at the high school and middle school and develop and update crises management plans for all schools. The SROs are trained to recognize signs of home or dating violence in students and have been instrumental in ending the cycle of violence in which some female students found themselves.
The SRO program is the one program that allows us to work proactively with youth in an attempt to stop unsatisfactory behavior before it reaches the need for criminal sanctions.
Contact
Officer Jason Tavares Jason.tavares@fairhavenpolice.org
Officer Michael Carrette Michael.carrette@fairhavenpolice.org
S.R.O. Activities
- Provide daily security in High and Middle Schools
- Provide a forum for school and police officials to share information and explore avenues for troubled youths.
- Intervene to break up fights between students
- Remove unruly or out of control students
- Investigate harassment and bullying complaints brought by administration, students and parents
- Investigate drug cases in school
- Develop and periodically update school crises and emergency plans
- Performed scores of criminal investigations of crimes committed in schools or reported to school personnel by students including rapes, assaults, sexual assaults, vandalism, domestic abuse, etc.
- Organize periodic K-9 drug sweeps
- Work with and monitor students who are placed on probation
- Give students a less intimidating avenue in which they can come and speak with a police officer in his office at school
- Participate in crises management team and student services support team
- Introduced anti-bullying program
- Conduct residency investigations
- Member of school anti-drug task force
- Conduct classes after school such as CPR, First Aid and Babysitting Basics
- Monitor students who have been involved in domestic or dating violence including monitoring compliance with court issued domestic violence restraining orders