The Stanley Police Department’s School Resource Officer (SRO) program places a law enforcement officer in our community schools with the goal of creating and maintaining safe, secure, and orderly learning environments for students, teachers, and staff.  The SRO program reflects the Stanley Police Department’s desire to ensure that its schools are safe, secure, and orderly.   The School Resource Officer represent a proactive strategy designed to bring prevention and intervention into the schools.

School Resource Officer Curfman emphasizes early intervention in the lives of youth who are at risk.  The goal is to redirect negative behavior before it lands a student in the court system.  Officer Curfman is active in the Gaston County teen programs, which divert minor offenders from the juvenile justice system. Programs are designed to empower youth to take charge situations that could adversely affect them.  The officer works with school administrators on security, safety issues, and also investigates crimes in which students are victims or suspects.

Programs that Officer Curfman takes part in includes Conflict Resolution & Peer Mediation, Students Against Violence Everywhere (S.A.V.E.), and other community service projects. The officers give classroom presentations on law and crime prevention topics. They are also available for conferences with students, parents and faculty.

Officer Curfman is a certified law enforcement officer who is permanently assigned to provide coverage to the Stanley schools. The S.R.O. is specifically trained to perform three roles: law enforcement officer; law-related counselor, and law-related education teacher. The SRO is not necessarily a D.A.R.E. officer, security guard, or officer who has been placed temporarily in a school in response to a crisis situation but rather acts as a comprehensive resource for his/her school.
Overview:
Officer Curfman provides information and advice to students concerning subjects about which he has expertise. He is familiar, for example, with the workings of the juvenile court system and can provide guidance about processes and services. He can offer suggestions about programs that might be available. As a law-related education teacher, Officer Curfman draws upon his expertise about the law.  As with the counseling role, Officer Curfman is not a replacement for teachers, but rather provides an additional resource, which can be drawn upon to teach young people about the law. . Officer Curfman can enhance teachers’ efforts to educate students about rights and responsibilities. He can make clear that responsibilities are associated with the rights we all enjoy as citizens living in the Town of Stanley.

Duties of the School Resource Officer

1. To prevent juvenile delinquency through close contact with students and school personnel.
2. To establish liaison with school principals, faculty, and students.
3. To establish and maintain communications with other S.R.O.s in the school system to bring about a countywide approach.
4. To inform the students of their rights and responsibilities as lawful citizens.
5. To provide liaison between students and social agencies which provide needed services.
6. To act as a liaison resource to the principal in investigating criminal violations occurring in the school or on school property.
7. To assist the administration and faculty in formulating criminal justice programs.
8. To formulate educational crime prevention programs to reduce the opportunity for crimes against persons and property in the schools.
9. To participate in campus activities, student organizations, and athletic events when invited and feasible.
10. To be aware at all times of the responsibility to improve the image of the uniformed law enforcement officer in the eyes of the students and the community.

 If at any point you would like to contact myself the Stanley Schools SRO you can Email me at Stanleysro@gaston.k12.nc.us            or call the Stanley Police Department at 704-263-4778.

 

Links that can be associated with the SRO are:
http://www.ncdjjdp.org/
http://www.nasro.com/home.asp
http://www.great-online.org/
http://www.ncpc.org/

http://www.nrahq.org/safety/eddie/index.asp
http://www.ncdoj.com/
http://www.usdoj.gov/
http://www.ncdjjdp.org/cpsv/

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http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/ric/ResourceSearch.aspx Or
http://www.ncpc.org/publications/brochures