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Requests for more school cops heard
Wilson: Putting officers in every school costly, merits discussion
SHS Safety Forum
Superintendent Charles Wilson talks to parents and others during Monday's lightly attended school safety forum at Statesboro High. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
As the Bulloch County Schools conduct a series of forums on school safety, one of the suggestions heard most often is that police officers, called school resource officers or SROs, should be assigned to every campus. Currently, just four resource officers serve at six of the county system’s 15 schools. Southeast Bulloch Middle School and Southeast Bulloch High School share one officer, as do Langston Chapel Middle School and Langston Chapel Elementary.
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